As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusio….

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self.

Who but the Atman is capable of removing the bonds of ignorance, passion and self-interested action?.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal..

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening..

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing..

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which….

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is n….

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda]..

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it..

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized..

Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother or cousin; do not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of friendship or enmity. Se….

Just as a stone, a tree, a straw, grain, a mat, a cloth, a pot, and so on, when burned, are reduced to earth (from which they came), so the body and ….

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory wo….

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient..

Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This ha….

Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self..

To be free from bondage the wise person must practise discrimination between One-Self and the ego-self. By that alone you will become full of joy, ….

All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose natur….

Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as….