You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world.
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.