Birth: December 30, 1879 Death: April 14, 1950
You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it. All that you have to do is ….
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still..
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our….
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge..
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere..
Then all this earth shines like one house..
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existe….
...Bliss is not something to be got. On the other hand you are always Bliss. This desire [for Bliss] is born of the sense of incompleteness. To whom ….
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose..
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery ….
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe..
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 i….
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation..
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all..
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. Th….
Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth..
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters..
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 ….
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything..
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind unceasingly investigates its own n….
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this….