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"Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it."
"The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises"
"All are seeing God always. But they do not know it."
"If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze."
"We are in our Self. We are not in the world."
"The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything."
"When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still."
"There is no reaching the Self. If Self were to be reached, it would mean that the Self is not here and now but that it is yet to be obtained. What is got afresh will also be lost. So it will be impermanent. What is not permanent is not worth striving for. So I say the Self is not reached. You are the Self; you are already That."
"The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I.""
"The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm."
"Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless."
"Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge."
"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."
"In accordance with the prarabdha of each, the One whose function it is to ordain makes each to act. What will not happen will never happen, whatever effort one may put forth. And what will happen will not fail to happen, however much one may seek to prevent it. This is certain. The part of wisdom therefore is to stay quiet."
"If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely."
"Meditation applies the brakes to the mind."
"See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject."
"Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?"
"The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen."
"Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization."