Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.