There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
Guru, God and Self are One
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
I am not the perishable body, but the eternal Self.
No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
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 existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.
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.
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.
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.
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Silence is also conversation.
If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Shaivism/Tantra/Nath
