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.
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.