You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.
The revelation or intuition arises in its own time and one must wait for it.
The enquiry ‘Who am I?’ is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.
Complete surrender does require that you have no desire of your own, that God’s desire alone is your desire and that you have no desire of your own.
Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one’s mind.
If a person overlooks the faults of others, and sees only their merits, and thus keeps his mind serene, his whole life will be happy. To be unconcerned in all things, with the mind cool, free of desires and without hate, is beautiful in a seeker.
The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.
There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
The peace of mind which permeates the saint’s atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.
Real peace is happiness. Pleasures do not form happiness.
Reality must be always real. It is not with forms and names. That which underlies all these is the reality. It underlies limitations, being itself limitless. It is not bound. It underlies unrealities, itself being real. Reality is that which is. It is as it is. It transcends speech. It is beyond the expressions ‘existence’, ‘non-existence’ etc.
One of two things must be done. Either surrender because you admit your inability and require a higher power to help you, or investigate the cause of misery by going to the source and merging into the Self. Either way you will be free from misery. God never forsakes one who has surrendered.
Does a man who is acting on the stage in a female part forget that he is a man? Similarly, we too must play our parts on the stage of life, but we must not identify ourselves with those parts.
People such as inventors searching for new material, make their discoveries in a state of self-forgetfulness. It is in a condition of deep intellectual concentration that this forgetfulness of the ego arises and the invention is revealed. This is also a way of developing intuition.
That which is worth taking up is the self-enquiry that reveals jnana; that which is worth enjoying is the grandeur of the Self; that which is worth renouncing is the ego-mind; that in which it is worth taking refuge, to eliminate sorrow completely, is one’s own source, the Heart.
Solitude is in the mind of man. One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude. Another may stay in a forest, but still be unable to control his mind. He cannot be said to be in solitude. Solitude is a function of the mind. A man attached to desire cannot get solitude wherever he may be; a detached man is always in solitude.
To perform one’s duty is the greatest service to God.
A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.
Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual.
The man who prays, the prayer, and the God to whom he prays all have reality only as manifestations of the Self.