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"Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true self in order to open the store of happiness. That true self is the reality, the Supreme Truth, which is the self of all the world you now see, the self of all the selves, the One real, the Supreme, the Eternal self - as distinct from the ego or the bodily idea for the self."
"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."
"Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that."
"You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?"
"Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?""
"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."
"When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life."
"You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge."
"By constantly keep one's attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea."
"Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself."
"Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss."
"The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world"
"The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death."
"The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart."
"The search "Who am I"...ends in the annihilation of the illusory "I" and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one's hand."
"Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth."
"The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world."
"Love is verily the heart of all religions."
"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."
"Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification."