Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
Then all this earth shines like one house.
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.