Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.
Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.
No one succeeds without effort. … Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
No one succeeds without effort…. Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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.
The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teaching.
No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.