"In the present times, the anxiety and worry of 'must work' 'must work' like a ghost has taken the grip of everyone."
"Is it not the real duty of men of best talents in this world to find out ways and means so that the happiness and joy may be universal, the anxiety for work and need for income and accumulation might be put an end to, and warfare, crooked policies, politics and intrigues may reign supreme all over the world? Everyday new discoveries are made and people are made to toil and labour for them and various tactics are used to increase the needs of people. How long the world is going to continue this course of life? Is not the world still tired of it? Now enough of this! Let all this be put an end to."
"The modern civilization has produced only articles of luxury and tremendously increased the wants of people and consequently made them unhappy and miserable."
"The measure of happiness derived from worldly objects is out of proportion to the immense labour and trouble required for their attainment. From the view of real happiness, therefore, this is not a profitable bargain, for happiness, is like an atom and the misery is of a mountain in dimension."
"Once a new invention is out then the same is widely advertised and all sorts of tactics are used to create a demand for the same only to make moneys thereof by exploiting the ignorance. Very often Governments also have to make use of their powers and resort to oppression, intrigues or politics. Sometimes Governments go to the length of waging wars with other countries to force such inventions upon other countries. Thus with the progress in invention, peoples’ wants are increased and various tactics are in progress to extort moneys. In such circumstances how can you expect real fraternity or unity? This is nothing but open enmity. Such robbery and extortion are however described as the great progress in civilization and as increasing universal brotherhood and fraternity in the world."
"In all civilized countries nothing but misery is found. As new discoveries are being made by the modern civilisation, miseries and terror also keep pace with them. By such discoveries there is a growing increase in the needs of people and to meet the same people must toil and labour more and more. The demand upon the resources of people for satisfying their fresh and new wants is growing everyday with the new invention. Every new invention would make only the inventor rich but the pockets of millions of other people are emptied because of the new and fresh wants created by his invention."
"Why in ancient times people could maintain strict morality and the virtues of truth, honesty and compassion? The reason is obvious. Peoples' wants were few and they could secure their necessities with a slight labour. There was therefore no reason for people to addict to immorality. Now the wants are so immensely increased that they cannot be satisfied even by hard work, hence rogueries, intrigues, immorality are rampant and people have gone to the length of committing thefts."
"It is not that the ancient sages in India were incapable of making such reforms, inventions etc. as are now made by the modern scientists which push down the world into the deep valley of misery. They were quite competent to make such discoveries but the reason why those scientists (sages) kept aloof and abandoned such reforms and inventions is that they knew full well that the same were not meant for any happiness to the world but were for total destruction of the peace and tranquillity of the whole world. It was their firm conviction that such reforms and inventions of the present day type would produce endless miseries and worldwide anxieties and worries as are now being experienced. The natural peace and joy enjoyed by the world before the times of modern civilization has now completely disappeared."
"There is a Marathi proverb which literally means that wise men eat cow-dung and fools eat sweetmeats. Will you try to see through the meaning of this proverb? Are you not still convinced that the natural products are more than sufficient for maintenance? Are you not still disgusted with the constant drudgery?"
"Providence has arranged that what is required for real happiness can be had everywhere without any cost or effort."
"It is the sense objects that are the demons. Since you worship them, you become like demons."
"Know that all conceptual knowledge is false."
"When one is convinced that all things that disappear are false, death disappears automatically."
"Take up the attitude that 'I am not. This person does not exist. There is nobody.'"
"The seat is Brahman, the food is Brahman, and the one who serves food is also Brahman. If he sleeps, he will not forget that the bed is Brahman, and even the cot is only Brahman."
"One who takes his food with faith that it is Brahman, has observed a fast, although he dines."
"Once the tree is strong and fully-grown, then there is no need to take all of the trouble of tending to it any longer."
"The Sun is so brilliant that it does not need a bath."
"There is no death in the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and space. Death is related only to desire, and the subtle 'I', with its attributes of thoughts and emotions. Living and dying are applicable only to this separate existence."
"If only One is there, then everything has value. As soon as there are two, there is friction and conflict. Therefore, live in Unity, as One, Alone."
"In Brahman there is no experience."
"Where there is only One, there is no experience. For experience to take place, some other object is necessary. Brahman is non-dual."
"When you adopt the position of 'I', you are subject to the limits of the 'I'. You then become small and limited, but Brahman is vast."
"The gods are also mortal."
"Illusion tries hard to pull you down by way of offering spiritual powers, which is tantamount to the expansion of a mundane life."
"All powers come to one who expects nothing at all."
"The one who has no desire gets the fruit."
"Sorrow is felt so long as you think that it is you who is breathing."
"The meaning of the centrally important part of the Upanishads is: 'Have no expectation.' That is the greatest mystery."
"I asked the mind, 'Why are you not leaving?' The mind said, 'When was I there?'"
"All come crying, and only for crying. The only aim of being born is to cry. Crying is the destiny of one who takes the birth. All are going forward crying. Nobody looks back."
"He whom the speech cannot compel to speak, makes the speech speak out."
"To say or conceive that one has become somebody, and that someone is transforming somebody else, is nothing but the ego's game."
"One must realise that he is not the doer, the actor. This is very necessary. The sense that is created in our mind, that actions create results, and that we have to suffer for those results, is a powerful poison."
"There should not be even an iota of the sense that 'I am the doer,' 'I have done,' 'I do,' etc."
"It does not matter at all whether the life of a devotee is ideal or disturbed according to Earthly standards."
"I ask you, were you born? When? When did you lose your chastity? Did these things really happen?"
"Really, blind faith is nothing other than this strong conviction."
"When a man is asleep, he does not feel fear, even if a snake were to go across his body. Fear is the mind. When you are all things, what are you afraid of?"
"The mind gets confused and disturbed, but what is the trouble? When you ask it why it is afraid, it becomes silent. When you ask it, 'What are you doing?' it remains quiet. Nobody can answer or explain what all the agitation and worry is about."
"If you lick your own tongue, it is not contaminated, yet we consider the spit of others dirty for us. The One who has all the tongues that are licking, who is everywhere, alone, yet in all things, is completely fearless."
"Everything is already without any entanglement."
"What is expected to be forgotten, is twice remembered."
"In short, do not hope to get rid of your involvements in the future, and to be free afterwards. This will not happen."
"When experience is even of a minute nature, it is the 'Time of Ignorance' which is the nature of time itself. The perception of Time and the experiencing of the outer world is the slumber of the True Being."
"The realization that 'I am everywhere' is the death of the limited knower."
"When you know that there is no birth, you are also sure that there is no death."
"As soon as he realizes what he is, he is beyond both sin and merit."
"Only the one who is desireless becomes free of the fruits of his actions."
"We have assumed conceptually that we are a body, but if you take a search throughout the body, there is neither 'you' nor 'I' in it."
"All is only that Life-Energy. One who has understood that only 'One Thing' is real, is liberated from birth and death."
"Neither now nor any time in the future is there anything, or anybody which puts any pressure upon, or competes with our True Being for importance."
"When there is no accused, who is there to pay the fine?"
"The meditator disappeared with the meditation. The 'me', the entity who meditates, has become extinct along with the meditation. The 'me' which is the cause of worldly life, has gone with that life. The life which has disappeared has come with all its glory again, but it has now become Brahman."
"The one who dies is dead because he was a 'non-entity'. The one 'who was not', has died. No sin remains on the face of the Earth."
"The false is not respected even a little bit. It should be called and is called Maya. Maya is a derogatory word. It is a contemptuous term."
"Whatever has an appearance, whatever is perceived, is false."
"Concept is the individual, the Jiva, and Jiva is the ego, Ignorance."
"Truth is unqualified, absolute, and without any image. To be proud of any kind of high quality fake image is totally useless. Brahman considers Maya very despicable. Any falsehood that is proud of itself is to be despised."
"Brahman is completely without pride. Therefore, any little pride in any experience, in any achievement, is worthless. It may even be a great good deed that the doer feels he has done, but Brahman does not touch it and does not respect it."
"There is nobody such as 'I' to be discovered. By searching and eliminating all the elements and principles in nature, and in man, there is no 'I' found remaining at all."
"When the 'me' is gone, the concept of being a seeker, the sense of doing something and the idea of something to be attained are also gone. Paramatman is uncovered without doing anything about it. If you examine all of your thoughts, you will find there is no 'I' at all."
"When this 'I', or lack thereof is recognised, its function ends."
"What is the necessity to declare as non-existing that which is not there? It is naturally not there!"
"Where is there a 'me' as an entity? It is 'not.' It is like going out to search for darkness by holding a light in our hand."
"The Jnani does not suffer defamation because he is not an individual. He is unexpressed, and beyond all qualities and all forms."
"Do not hold to any concepts."
"God has no destiny."
"Maya says, 'I have tethered many big beasts.' The seekers, sadhus, and the yogis are these beasts, tethered by Maya."
"The mirror says, 'There is nobody in me.' The man who looks into the mirror says, 'I am in the mirror.'"
"First, Knowledge (Jnana) is necessary in order to gain Self-Knowledge. This Self-Knowledge or 'wisdom' then destroys the Knowledge. One should also throw out all that has happened. The Master Key to what is being said here is that one whose conceptual entity is gone, is the Jnani. The Illusion is gone, the elements are gone, and Knowledge is also gone. When one house is emptied, all houses are empty."
"The sense of 'I' was only imagined. One whose sense of 'I' is wiped out by the blessings of the Guru, remains not as a person."
"There is no bondage for Him who is free from all actions."
"A person was deceiving himself and calling himself as some particular entity, but once the sense of 'me' goes, then 'I', 'Who am I?,' and 'I Am That' also all go away."
"Once you realize your own Self, anything may happen, but nothing will worry you."
"Talking continuously about various philosophical systems is futile."
"The ever-changing mind can never have peace."
"Illusion as a rule gives something, and then takes it back."
"When you have the wish for all of life's pleasures, that desire is a checkmate. It is your defeat. It is also your defeat to say, 'I don't want any pain or sorrow.'"
"Everything in the Illusion is perishing every day."
"Whatever is seen, is unreal."
"Whatever number of species may be there, life as such, is only One, and the same for all."
"What a man says becomes a source of bondage for him. What you have said has become your restraint. You are bound by your desires. That is the nature of the world created by you. If you say all is false, you are freed. You are bound only by your own concepts."
"Why should one search another man's house when he has not searched his own house for something that he lost while he was at home?"
"Golden is the day for a man when his conceptual images about himself die away."
"This hope that is hidden deep in the innermost layers of your heart and mind is only Illusion."
"When attention is diverted from the Self towards objects, that is called the beginning of the eclipse. That is the Illusion. That is mind."
"When the worry and concern about worldly life ceases, the eclipse of the Self is over."
"The attachment in the heart that takes the form of pity towards all the beings is only the illusory play of God, and is nothing but worldliness and worry."
"If you start analyzing others, you become one of the analyzed, a separate entity, and this is bondage for you."
"Maintain the attitude that 'All is Brahman', and act with the conviction that it is true. Test it in your life, and see if it is true or not!"
"The world appears according to how you look at it."
"If there is nothing to be seen, how can the seer come into being?"
"The sign of Pure Brahman is that there is no such thing as 'Me,' or 'I'."
"Do not waste your life talking with others."
"Where an ordinary man is asleep, the Saints are awake, and where an ordinary man is awake, the Saints dose off. They have closed their eyes to external things, and it is the Self, to which other beings are asleep, that keeps the Saints wide awake."
"Turn back. Turn back. You may be caught in the whirlpool of illusion."
"Whatever acts one considers as meritorious, and dear to one's heart, must also be renounced. One must be prepared to take a step on the path that turns inward. These are the conditions for becoming a beneficiary of the legacy."
"Only the one whose heart sincerely relinquishes pride can become the beneficiary of this wealth."
"A lucky man who feels that the ambition of getting ahead of others is actually taking him on a downward path, will get from that day onward a glimpse of the reverse direction shown by the Saints."
"Dear aspirants, although the possession of good qualities in comparison with vices and bad qualities seems to be better with regard to the pursuit of attaining Self-Knowledge, the possession of the good qualities which one holds dear to one's heart is really a hundred times worse, and truly needs to be thrown out. Look into this and see."
"If a thief is shackled by iron handcuffs and a king by golden handcuffs, does that mean that the king is not bound?"
"Take it for granted that while the man in the iron cuffs will thank someone who frees him from them, the man with golden cuffs will pounce on the throat of anyone who tries to free him."
"Unless one is considered to be a madman by the 'socially wise' people, there is no hope that one will arrive at such a mental state to be free from pride, and such social bondage."
"This world is like a dream, and in this dream-like world whatever is considered to be good or bad, merit or sin, or anything in the realm of dualistic morality is of no consequence in the process of awakening to the Self. Therefore, renunciation of both sides of duality such as good and bad, auspicious and inauspicious, is necessary to gain Self-Knowledge."
"Unless the futility of acquiring objects in this world is impressed irrevocably upon the mind, Self-Knowledge is difficult to maintain."
"One becomes able to look at the world and appreciate it as if it were a cinema, or a source of entertainment, and with the detachment that has been achieved, one remains unaffected."
"Human nature is such that if a man is forcibly robbed of a thing, he suffers immensely. He will make persistent efforts to regain that thing. Yet, if he were to part with that same thing out of his own free will, that sacrifice would bring him immense joy."
"Because of the transient nature of things, the fear of dissolution is inevitable. The one who is overpowered by this fear of dissolution, or death, continuously strives to see that some particular thing is not taken from him."
"Nothing ever happens according to wishes or desires."
"Only those Great Saints, the 'Mahatmas,' who have uprooted fear from its very depths by establishing themselves in the Self and destroying the identification with the body are capable of granting the gift of fearlessness."
"Gods are no better than servants who carry other people's burdens on their heads."
"Every human being has the right of following Swadharma, one's own nature where there is no temptation of heavenly enjoyments and no fear of pain in purgatory, and where bondage and liberation have no meaning."
"All karma gets exhausted in Self-Knowledge."
"The qualities valued as best in the practical world only count as disqualification, and all remedies only turn into obstacles in pursuit of Self-Knowledge. The sages know this well and do not even care in the slightest if they are able to conquer all of the three worlds. They consider Lord Indra's status, that is ridden with jealousies, to be as useless as the droppings of a crow."
"There is no relationship of cause and effect relating learning to peace. The one who evaluates various kinds of gems, and one who examines various sciences and arts, or aesthetics, has lost the happiness that comes from peace of mind because they have no ability to examine themselves."
"Maya dispenses with all people with the same disregard."
"Many are the members of the cult of Maya."
"Live in non-duality. Become aspirants for Truth."
"Consider yourself lucky if your mind becomes fed up with worldly objects. The 'Goddess of Sensuality' is very fond of the human sacrifice, and she likes it fried alive!"
"Treat your body as illusion and thereby fulfil you life."
"The 'world' by its nature is the separateness of species. It will never function smoothly. Any fruit except for the Self, is futile. Please think this over deeply."
"The individual turns towards sense objects, and in doing so, turns towards sorrow. The objects that appear attractive, are actually very destructive and give pain, yet the individual always runs after these objects."
"When the teaching of the Master is assimilated, worldliness is cut away and though such a one may be in the world, he is not a slave to the world."
"The Knowledge (Jnana) is such that it cannot be understood by describing it."
"He who has understood himself does not need anything, nor does he wish to possess anything."
"To realize that 'nothing is mine' is the very essence of the Grace of the Master."
"Those who live by the ideas of 'I' and 'mine' are slaves of illusion."
"The Goddess of Prosperity, Laxmi, makes a beggar of one who seeks after her, but humbly serves the one who does not care for her. To say 'I want,' 'I want,' is an insult. To demand is to insult."
"When the poison of desire drops away from the mind, then you will drink the Nectar of Immortality."
"Give up the sense of 'mine' and you are free."
"Desirelessness is the only food that helps us turn towards the Reality and attain Self-Realization."
"It is natural that one who becomes desireless is hated by his friends and family who are simply worldly focused."
"Only those who do not like anything except Self-Knowledge can attain it."
"The poet Waman Pandit requested Vishnu to liberate him from the chain of birth and death but God said, 'That is not within my power. I will give you huge wealth and high intellect, but I have no freedom."
"It is the business of the gods to put all creatures on the treadmill and revolve them. To stop the treadmill and give liberation is only within the power of the Saints. It is their capacity. Only they will give you Self-Knowledge."
"Truly, one does not act, has not acted, and will not act."
"It remains as the no-doer, although a great number of activities are done."
"The one who takes care of all, is really the non-doer."
"What is this slavery? Even though one may have already enjoyed many pleasures, the desire to enjoy them again and again persists."
"You harbour such useless doubts and become slaves to Illusion. Actually, there is no question of how to behave, or what to do. Action and non-action are both irrelevant. When the whole of life is One, why ask how to behave? The question is finished."
"Just as the light of one moon is equal to that of millions of stars, the one who is learned and becomes Realized liberates the entire world."
"If one wants to get free from this misery, he must leave the 'I'."
"The assumption of 'I' is taken for granted by all human beings."
"The five elements (Earth, Water, Light or Fire, Air or Wind and Space or Sky) have the right of ownership to this body. After the body falls, each of these elements takes away their share, thereby destroying the body. The body is a bundle of these five elements."
"Understand clearly that the body is not 'mine,' it belongs to the five elements, and that it is someone else's property. When you understand this, whatever kind of properties the body may possess, how does it affect you?"
"In Deep Sleep, the whole world, including our body is dissolved."
"Let whatever is to happen, happen and let whatever has to go, go."
"If you want a description of the 'I' who is found here, you may utter any word found in any dictionary, but that is not 'I'."
"You may utter words and sentences to try to describe it, but those are not it. Whatever meanings come forth, you take those to be the description of 'I,' but those are not it. If you do not understand what is being told now, you must leave off the words and concepts, and merge in Deep Silence, and see who 'I' am."
"It will not do to just keep quiet and mistake this for Deep Silence."
"Dear one, it is necessary to keep a fire under the utensil until the rice is cooked, but later, the fire has to be put out, otherwise we would get coals instead of rice."
"The assertion of a concept, such as 'something is like this,' is called 'Sankalpa,' and a doubt, or a notion that 'something is not like this,' is called 'Vikalpa.' The Subtle body is such that it is always presenting this perverse type of knowledge of contradictory thoughts."
"The Causal body is the natural state of all the gods, demons, and every human being."
"Ignoring the word, and not allowing it to carry any meaning for the mind, is the eradication of the world. When the word does not energize the mind, what remains is 'The Pure Energy of Consciousness.' To experience this state continuously is called 'The State of Silence.'"
"The birth and death of the body, the miseries and temptations, the pain and pleasure, as well as the hunger and thirst that arise in the Pranas, cannot touch me."
"To take the false as true, is a mistaken concept, but to take the True as True is the absence of any such concept."
"Is the barren woman's son fair or dark? What is his age, his height, his breadth?"
"The non-existent Maya exists and she has created this world."
"Even though the eyes see all objects, no object can see the eye."
"In spite of the fact that the pervading substance is infinitely bigger, when we pay attention to the pervaded object we forget the pervading substance."
"Unless Knowledge dies, Ignorance does not die. Knowledge and Ignorance are Siamese twins born of Illusion. They are both born, and both die, at the same time."
"Destruction is inherent in growth."
"The root cause of death is nothing other than birth."
"Whenever we try to forcefully break up these dreams and desires, their number only seems to grow. The mind is frivolously disrespectful. When we try to curb it, it becomes more agitated. Therefore, to stop the growth of the mind, the Sadguru gives us the remedy: 'If you try to keep quiet, gradually the imagination and doubts dissolve."
"Birth and death, or appearing and disappearing, are two opposite sides of the same state of Consciousness. When one comes, the other goes, and conversely when one goes, the other comes."
"How can sugar taste its own sweetness?"
"As this rope, in the form of the mind, was twisted in the direction of body-consciousness, it now has to be twisted in the opposite direction of Self-Consciousness. When the rope gets untwisted, the strings will be blown about by the wind, and there will be nothing left to call 'rope'."
"Wherever mind goes, Consciousness is already there."
"Take this advice, and you will see this for yourself. To better understand just how 'One Pure Knowledge' is playing about, you have only to come out of the house, and look at the moon. With what speed does the Pure Consciousness rush towards the moon out from the window of your mind? See how it pervades the whole sky in a fraction of a second."
"Now, try to notice the 'crust' of Consciousness that is without an object, the 'Pure Knowledge' without the mixture of any objects. That space, which is lying between the eye and the moon, had not come to your notice, yet still it was there pervading, existing in its own nature."
"While looking at the moon, the space in between did not come to your attention. Therefore, it is Consciousness without an object. If this space is separated, and is made an object of sight, this Pure Knowledge is transformed into a zero, because if Space is seen separately, the modification of the mind becomes a void. If there is any difference between Space and Pure Knowledge it is this: To separately look at one's own nature is Space, and when the 'looking' is abandoned, it is 'Pure Knowledge'."
"Anyone can say 'The senses do not work of the senses, but I am not the senses,' or 'The mind's qualities are with the mind, and body's qualities are with the body, but what have I to do with them? I am different from these.' What is untrue about these utterances? Who is it that understands the Truth? Who is it that has the experience of Truth? Only the one who knows who he is. Of what use are such statements to another?"
"Even a parrot can be taught to repeatedly say the words 'Brahman is Truth, the world is only an appearance.' However, one cannot say that the parrot has understood the Truth of what Brahman is, or what the world is, or even what a statement of Truth is."
"When Pure Knowledge takes the shape of an object, an idea, or a thought, it then becomes categorised as particular knowledge. Particular knowledge, being artificial, is by nature transient and lasts only for a very short period of time. It is inherently transient and of an unsteady nature."
"We are naturally very loving and blissful within, and this love within oneself is the general type of love common to all. However, when love is for a son, a friend, or a house, etc., it is an objective and particular kind of love. Thus, a love that comes, must also go. The love that comes, is of a particular kind that is transient and destructible. The happiness that one gets from objects, also falls into the category of being of a 'particular' kind of happiness which only lasts for a very short period of time."
"It is only seen when one gives up both the seeing as well as the thought that 'I am the seer'. The instrument of seeing is the eye, and the instrument of knowing a thought is the intellect. 'Knowledge' itself can only be seen by setting aside both of these instruments. The instruments of sight and intellect are of no value here. Any attempt to know Pure Knowledge by means of the eye or intellect is to forget that Pure Knowledge (the unadulterated sense of 'I Am') by allowing these instruments to step in. To know Pure Knowledge really means to not know it, and once 'known' in this way, the 'knower' himself becomes Pure Knowledge."
"If the donkey were given green grass and clean water to drink, that would be proper worship to God in the form of a donkey."
"The snake and a scorpion are also forms of God (Narayana), but to worship them consists of making obeisance to them from a distance. This means that they should be left alone to live their own lives. Instead of doing this, if you start embracing them out of devotion, that serpent God will bite you and prove to you that embracing him is not worshipping him."
"You will see the same facial expression in the mirror as you have on your face. If you see a bad expression in the reflection in the mirror, is it the fault of the mirror?"
"Why does the thief rob our house? It is because we also have a continuous desire to rob people in many ways and fill our house. As we develop the feeling of complete renunciation, then that feeling will be reflected in whatever comes before us. Even if you refuse to ask for anything, people are prepared to give up heaps of whatever they have for you. But the one who begs for it, does not get it."
"Unmoving Paramatman is the 'Only Truth,' it is the 'Essence.' Nothing else is true."
"Parabrahman is 'That' from where no-one can return."
"There is as much difference between 'Self-Knowledge,' or 'I Am' (Jnana), and the Absolute (Vijnana; Parabrahman), as there is a difference between darkness and light."
"When the aspirant mistakes Self-Knowledge, or 'I Am' (Jnana) for Vijnana, his progress is arrested there. Samartha Ramdas has compared this type of an undeveloped Jnani to a man who is awakened in a dream, and thinks he is awake. Yet, he is still snoring! 'You think this is wakefulness, but your illusion has not gone,' is the warning given by Shri Samartha to this type of Jnani. The Great-Causal Body or Turya state in which the Gross and Subtle Bodies are like a dream, is itself like a dream in Vijnana. There is bondage in Ignorance, and liberation in Knowledge, but when both Ignorance and Knowledge are not there, how could the idea of bondage or liberation exist?"
"In the field of Knowledge beyond the Great-Causal Body is the proven final conclusion, or Siddhanta, and the cancelling of all that has been laid down is right there. When all phenomena is destroyed, or annihilated, whatever remains is your 'Real Nature.' It is impossible to describe it in words. Where 'the knowledge of words' proves to be Ignorance, where Consciousness becomes non-Consciousness, and where all remedies recommended by the scriptures are only hindrances, you will see for yourself how you reach that highest point. The Sadguru cannot show you the beauty or the panorama within. You have to seize the treasure, the trophy, yourself. Now, after all this has been said, there remains nothing that can be conveyed through words. Words were used for whatever had to be told. That which cannot be conveyed by words has now been entrusted to you. We can only inspire you to be an aspirant, but you have to become a Siddha by yourself. We have reached the end of the book. Words are redundant."
"Anxiety accompanies desire. As long as the mind is full of desire, anxiety will be there. When desire ceases, anxiety is no more."
"To feel that something is 'mine' is itself bondage."
"Your thinking is warped by the notions of virtue and vice."
"Nobody is bad or good."
"Anxiety kills us very early. The one who worries dies with that worry, and hatred is a very heavy burden to bear."
"When pride disappears, the thorn that irritates you drops away."
"Have no enmity towards anyone."
"Attachment to pleasure is bondage. If you say, 'I don't need anything,' all problems come to an end."
"When the mind is convinced that all objects are illusory, this is what is called 'Sattvic Desirelessness.' With pure 'Sattvic Desirelessness,' one feels like laughing at the idea of relinquishing anything. Where was there really ever any bondage to relinquish? You have tied yourself up with ropes that are non-existent. You may say that you have dropped the shackles, but you were only holding fast to that which was not even yours. What was ever yours? What have you dropped? If there was nothing ever to be dropped, then what is there to let go of?"
"One who says that he has renounced, is not the real renunciate."
"The Supreme Self, Paramatman, has no need for anything."
"You become ashamed to desire anything from this world, much in the same way that a woman will not desire a moustache."
"You must read again and again what is written because you do not remember."
"If you separate yourself and become proud of that separateness, then you suffer sorrow."
"Do not get involved in the world even with the good intentions to help others, because as soon as you deviate from your own Being, you will fall into the trap."
"The slate is something that is to be written on, and then always wiped clean."
"Do not bother to put forth the effort to think of anything."
"In the body where there is the sense of 'I', how can the light of the Self shine?"
"Relinquish all of the things that the 'I' desires, and then the mind is automatically slain."
"If you let go of all objects, then what job does the mind have to perform?"
"The individual (Jiva) desires to eat the fruits of this tree of worldly life. When that eating of worldly life stops, he becomes God (Shiva) automatically."
"The meaning of cleansing the mind is to let all of the thinking about objects fall away. The mind that is thus purified always shines. Then it does not like anything other than the Reality, which is Pure Being. It has no need of meditation and contemplation. That One, is Pure Brahman."
"The donkey has the same Self inside as you."
"The security that one feels in the knowledge of 'I Am Brahman,' is the only real happiness. To worry, or be concerned for the things of the world, is sorrow."
"You were pure, formless and alone. Then, when the awareness of 'I Am' arises, understand that this is the active feeling of the ego, which says, 'I.'"
"The mundane life is like a treadmill. It may round and round, but still you are in the same place. Please do not live this mundane life simply waiting for death."
"God is an ancient devotee who is unified with God."
"God should be worshipped by becoming God."
"I am already the king, so who will make me king?"
"When the spotless and pure Sadguru is met, everything is finished."
"Work is always going on for millions of years. It will never be complete. We will never say that it is enough."
"When you begin to demand something, you become smaller and smaller."
"Objects are unreal, and detachment from objects is itself awakening to Reality."
"It should never be forgotten, that is all. There is no separate 'I.'"
"If there is no individual, there is no illusion."
"It is difficult to conquer Maya, the Illusion. To call her Illusion and to still employ her to serve, is quite difficult."
"There is a story of a person who was not guarding his field. Someone asked him, 'Why don't you guard the crops in your field?' He answered, 'I have kept it open so that it may be useful for others. Let people take away what they want.' But the experience was completely opposite. Robbers said, 'Let us not rob from his field, we will rob from the fields of those who protect their possessions zealously."
"Look at the strange attitude of the individual (jiva). Although he is the Supreme Self, Paramatman, he thinks himself to be a jiva. This is the great sin that he commits and thereby wastes his life."
"The jiva does not wish to have no form, no sensation, or to be extremely vast and spread out everywhere. We presume that it is death if we become like that. Thus, there is a liking for a particular form."
"Desirelessness means to let go of that which only disappears anyway."
"The poverty of the individual is first pleasure, secondly pain, and thirdly hunger and thirst. You have to suffer all of this because of your identification with the body."
"If the son starts to come out of the sea of mundane life, the parents will try to pull him back and put him in the dungeon of family life. This is how parents teach their children. Parents will never help one to be free and attain liberation. They will only try to expand your attachments. To merge the child into the ocean of worldliness is the task of parents, while the duty of the Guru is to free one from the worldly life."
"To one who is successful in reaching beyond the mind, all of the pleasures that money can buy are false. They are but trivial."
"To feel the happiness that is naturally abiding within oneself, to feel and increase in that happiness, to have an interest and an urge to know it increasingly, and to not like anything except that inner happiness; these are the signs of desirelessness."
"As long as the conviction that 'I am the body' is not gone, wisdom will not come."
"Even Death is afraid of the one who has no desire. Even the gods are not as happy as he is."
"Consider the one who has no desires greatly lucky."
"You should not consider things to be yours that do not belong to you. Take the utmost care, as surely an arrest warrant will be given."
"The main key to spiritual life is the state of 'Total Desirelessness.' There is a saying: 'There is no happiness that compares to Desirelessness.'"
"For one whose attention is turned towards the Reality, the first effect is desirelessness. Then, one experiences that whatever may be given to him or taken away from him, does not matter as he does not need anything."
"The one who has escaped from this Illusion is the truly brave one."
"Do not become that person projected by your imagination. It is not that 'I' should become Brahman, but that the 'I' should be dead. Actually, the 'I' is itself an illusory imagined entity. 'I' is the essence of what is called sin."
"Your task is to make into Brahman that which is already Brahman. You cannot turn that which does not exist, the 'I,' into Brahman. This is the subtle difference. This does not require spiritual powers. As Brahman is pervading everywhere without division, spread out with no separate parts, who is to search whom, and where? Who is to know whom? Where is the sense of 'other-ness' to be found? How can there be anything that is called 'second,' separate from the One, and how can it know another?"
"See what a great injustice you are doing to your Self."
"Pride about youth, pride about being educated, pride about riches, pride about art, these are all the mischief of the game of Illusion, aimed at turning the seeker away from the correct path, and putting him into the chains of birth and death. Be on guard."
"Saints are asleep to those things for which the people of the world are very much awake and concerned about."
"Continue to simply give up everything."
"Even the three gods, Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, are afraid of such a one because he does not demand anything in the Illusion. He does not want anything."
"Let the wish to demand anything from the Illusion die. Give up all desire, and in return everything is received."
"The disciple should study and attain Reality secretly. He may grow his hair long or not, his physical appearance is not important. He should steadily, keep progressing quietly on the path, on the basis of personally experiencing the Truth. This should be done very patiently, and secretly. If you ask for the opinions of others, you will find that they will try to pull you back."
"Only when you stop trying to catch a dog, will it be quiet."
"If your mind is content, then that contentment will be present in all outward circumstances."
"No matter what you say or do, only that which is destined to happen will happen."
"Let whatever happens happen, and don't be anxious about anything. Have steadfast conviction that you are the Self. One who worries will never be happy. Children are happy. Why is this? This is because children do not worry."
"One who worries will never be happy."
"One who gives up anxiety is supremely happy. There is only one way. One must have the willingness to renounce. There should be no desire even if a kingdom is given, and there should be no care, even if the world is drowned."
"Discard the concept that you are an individual."
"Where there is an enthusiastic joy for the sense pleasures, there is the urge towards Illusion."
"The worst habit is that of a mundane worldly life. It is called the 'greatest addiction.' By force of this addiction to worldly life, Paramatman is made to believe that He is an individual, and is compelled to live a worldly life as if in prison."
"People try to strengthen their ties with others by speaking to them respectfully and congratulating each other over small things. In this way, they feel that they are happy in life. They act as if this is a respectable bad habit."
"Know that the body is your enemy."
"The man who is extraordinarily clever is truly of no use. He puts himself and others at a great loss."
"There may be as many enemies as there are stars in the sky, but if there is the blessing of the Guru, nobody can touch even a hair."
"The things of this world that are cherished by people always breed fear. When some action is done after listening to the opinions of worldly people, it increases many kinds of fear. We get completely exhausted in trying to maintain those things that appear in the Illusion, as those things are ultimately perishable."
"One must be fully convinced that one is God."
"Do not abandon your godhood and take a step down."
"As soon as you say that you are an individual, Illusion is very happy to distract you from your real nature and to keep you inside her institution."
"Do not degrade yourself and call yourself an individual, a jiva."
"If you show respect to a ghost, it will ride upon you. As soon as you become an individual, take it for granted that the ghost will overcome you. It will even eat you. Be very careful not to trade your status as God for that of an individual."
"False imaginings cause harm to others and to yourself. This is done only by you. Only do one thing. Do not lose your own state of being Paramatman. This is most important above all. This is the highest devotion."
"To remain in our own Self is True Religion. There is no other sadhana, and there is no other God. Do not be deceived."
"Do not tread too much on the path of rituals."
"When you yourself are the 'Effulgence of Truth,' of what use are these petty little deities to you? What will they give you? Will the ocean ask for drinking water from the river?"
"Frequently check to see whether you maintain the right concept that you are Paramatman. Never forget it for a moment."
"Remain awake to the fact that you are Paramatman."
"Let a person call you that which is most lowly, but be sure that you are God, and see what wonder takes place. Once the inner judge has given the judgement that you are God, that judgement will never be changed. That's all there is to it."
"To develop the sense of being the Self is itself merit. To lose that state is what is called sin."
"Remain as your own Self. Do not lose your dignity. 'I Am Brahman' is your dignity. Never forget That."
"The Self is at all times spread out evenly everywhere. Being One and undifferentiated, it is always in equilibrium."
"Know that surely all powers are a hindrance in the way to attaining unity with Me."
"The experience of fleeting phenomena will never be permanent however hard you try to make it last. The one who takes pride in accomplishments or in the objects of the world takes a step downwards."
"One who is completely desireless is not affected by these worldly seductions. He says, 'Of what use are these things to me? I am beyond all qualities. I am not a person. I have no use for powers.' He realises that the very nature of spiritual powers is false."
"He who has not left behind all hopes does not attain Brahman."
"One who is happy in giving up everything, gets the blissful joy of one's own Essential Being."
"The ties of affection and the sense of belonging are the thorns of life. With Self-Knowledge, these thorns of falsehood begin burning. The python of enticement is incinerated. Even the death that is Time, which means the advancing of moments, starts burning and gets burned down. The tiger of egoism cannot find anywhere to run away. The force of the 'Fire of Knowledge' is very flammable. It burns down everything in the Illusion, and then itself becomes extinguished after it exhausts its own burning power. Such is the greatness of the Fire of Knowledge."
"When the mind and objects of the senses have friction and start to quarrel, the firewood is kindled which burns the forest of Ignorance and destroys it."
"He gets so fed up with the beasts of the world, the jackals, dogs and tigers of lust, anger and greed etc., start running away because the jungle of worldly life is on fire, and the forest of ignorance is burning up."
"There is no below, no above, no back, no front. All names and forms are false. Elephant, horse, whatever; all is illusion."
"Name and form are all deception."
"If you conceive of yourself as a petty little creature, you will think of making more and more demands. You are certain to feel like asking for this and that."
"On every grain is inscribed the name of the consumer."
"Recognize yourself as Brahman, and arrive at final contentment."
"The Sadguru can be compared to the hot Sun. Trouble starts as soon as the sun has risen. When you understand that you are He, that is noon time when the sun is at its zenith. The Sadguru is the Sun that destroys both the rising and the setting."
"The Sadguru is beyond both day and night. Who can see Him? He is 'The Master of Light,' but he himself has no light."
"The praises of Him are like demoting Him. It is as redundant as if we were to call a king a rich person. No such limited praise is possible for the Sadguru. How can one enumerate all that He has given? It is so vast that words fall short. We cannot say item by item, 'Oh Lord, you have given this, you have given that, etc.' The more we praise Him, it amounts to having not praised Him at all."
"Intellect is an untamed horse. One has to break this horse."
"Those who harbour doubt will not get the fruit of realization."
"The Saints do not boast of their eccentricity, or their Knowledge. They live in natural simplicity."
"The sense of 'I' is gone, and the pride of discarding the sense of 'I' is gone. When it was not existing, what was there to discard, and what is it that has come about? The dream and the wakefulness are gone."
"The observer, that which is observed, and the act of seeing (the observation), are one, and all the distinctions have died. Now, who is God and who is the devotee? Nothing is left."
"Unless you have complete trust in the Sadguru, you cannot be as the Universal Self."
"Only when the triple aspects of Consciousness (the seer, seen and the act of seeing), the sense of 'me,' as well as even the Knowledge of 'I Am That' are all dissolved does the devotee merge in Him."
"The sun doesn't have any intention, yet by its rising, the entire world becomes active."
"What is there in Reality that says 'I'? This is the imagined individual. The body does not only contain that which says 'I,' there is blood, flesh, semen, and all other material. However, the entity that is saying 'I' is not really there."
"In the Absolute Reality, there is no 'other,' nor is there any doubt or any alternatives."
"Like in dreams, one sees the appearance of many, but one is always only alone."
"One who does not know Illusion, or Maya, is the 'Essence of Consciousness,' and 'Life' is his attribute. All others are dead."
"While speaking, a man talks because of the power of the Self, but the mistake is made when he thinks himself to be only the body, and it is he who is talking."
"The Jiva is himself Shiva, but the allurement of Maya is there. Although you are Shiva, she makes you conceive of yourself as a body. That is her power. She increases the forgetfulness of the Self and the longing after sensual pleasures. The thinking about sense objects is called mind. The cleverness of ego is called intellect."
"If you maintain an idea that you are a 'body,' it seems that the body does everything, the eating, drinking, etc. This is called Ignorance. The illusory concept that 'I am the body' creates the individual (Jiva)"
"The sense organs are addicted, running out of control chasing after imagined enjoyment. That is the wonder! That is what is called pleasure! Pleasure merely indicates the stimulation of sensory nerves."
"There is a game of madness, and it was decided that you must keep on playing this game win or lose, pleasure or pain, and you must keep experiencing it. You call it pleasure, but it must be killed. There is real happiness in killing the enjoyment, but people keep up the imagination, which is really only suffering. If you have killed the enjoyment, that is good. However, the killer of enjoyment must also die."
"Everything happens in the grand scheme of things, but the individual says, 'I have done everything.' Although he is the Self, he says that he is the body, and bears the burden of merit and sins. This is the disease of the body identification called the ego."
"The individual takes up false pride and claims to do everything. He takes no rest at any time. It is like he is having an uncontrollable seizure of body identification."
"Illusion knows that if anybody realises the Self she would be defamed, so she makes efforts in the opposite direction of Knowledge."
"It is only when you see that pleasure is sorrow that you come to real happiness."
"Maya harasses the jiva by imposing upon him the mirage of body identification, but alas, the individual does not get fed up. The jiva takes birth in various bodies and suffers all of his own accord. The jiva that is blindfolding the eyes of Self-hood is wandering all over."
"He suffers because he has forgotten himself, and he plucks both the fruits of birth and death. The Self, who is free and complete, has become enslaved because of its identification with body. Over time he has taken the poison of bondage by thinking that there is happiness in objects. A chemical poison kills only in one lifetime, but the poison of the sense objects multiplies, and proves to be a killer for many lifetimes. Sorrow overlaps sorrow. The jiva is thrown into the bottomless pit of desires and sorrows, and while he is there suffering the great wave of destruction washes over the body, and then again there is rebirth."
"Illusion is really very strange and awe-inspiring. Those who are simple go beyond her, but those who say they will escape through their intellect are deceived."
"What is the remedy for Illusion? Only one whose intellect is clear and who recognizes that the Illusion and Brahman are distinctly separate, as if seen in a mirror, alone can tell you the remedy. For such people, to cross over Illusion is as easy as walking on a straight footpath. In order to do this, the attraction towards sense objects must be totally gone."
"The pleasure you get from ephemeral things is actually pain. The one who does not want sense objects is already free."
"The truly learned men do not look at any happenings in the outer world as if they are real. They have no residue of feeling that outer things are real, or that one day they will be useful. Unless one feels that worldly appearances are not true, one's attention will turn towards them. It is only when one feels that the objective world is true, and that today or some other day, it will be useful to oneself or to others, that one is attracted to the world appearance. The one who realizes the Essence and does not have any concept that objective will be useful today or any time, is the real Jnani who is truly beneficial."
"Such states of consciousness as non-attachment, surrender, being beyond the body, being beyond the mind, and being in a natural state of complete indifference, are all attained only by the blessing of the Guru. The names are different, but the state is One. If one of these states is attained, all are attained."
"This worldly life is an extended dream in which people are babbling their way through Illusion."
"Worldly people think that the Saints are nothing but calamities in their life. Therefore those who are slaves to Illusion, speak out vehemently against the Saints."
"Only one who says, 'Let all else be lost, I don't care. I wish only to follow the spiritual path,' can benefit from this path."
"As long as there is no brilliant 'Light of the Self,' there will be bad actions and good actions. When there is the Light of the Self, in that Light, all actions are auspicious."
"My devotee attains a state of being where space and time do not exist."
"Even though you are deathless in essence, if you do not listen to me, you will suffer. Even though you are beyond birth and death, you will have to die again, and again, if you are attached to your body."
"When you do not know yourself and you try to know others, that is the state of the causal body. Ignorance, or Tamoguna, is its quality. It is also called Akash (the space from which the world appears). That which describes it is called the mind. That which thinks about it is called the intellect. To be proud of it is called 'ego,' or Ahankar."
"The primary urge or movement that arises in Brahman is God. That itself, is what is called God, and it is the Primal Illusion (MoolaMaya)."
"That which is apparent is destructible. What you think it to be, it is not in reality. It is not what you conceive, and you cannot conceive it as it really is."
"Everything rises out of the earth, sets back into the earth, and is eventually covered up by earth. To see that everything becomes earth is to see with the eye of intelligence. When you go deeper, you see that earth is engulfed in wind, and wind becomes diffused in the sky (Space). The space is the Life-Energy. The name and form are all only imagined. The essence is this Life-Energy, or Chaitanya, only."
"To see that there is 'One' is Knowledge, to see that there are many is Ignorance."
"In everything, dwells only one Life-Energy. The mind and the intellect are only Chaitanya, and there is no 'I' who assumes a separate existence."
"The teachers in Illusion who themselves are ignorant have taught us 'I Am.' This worldly experience is limited by that boundary."
"Please tell me what is in this body that dies. The five elements never die."
"To classify into different groups is Ignorance, and to see everything as One is Knowledge."
"All of the worldly talk is only cunning speech and trickery. People speak falsely swearing they are speaking the truth."
"There is no death. Nothing in this world is ever totally destroyed. If it were, where would it go?"
"The Self (Atman) is One, alone. There is no place for a second thing to enter."
"No second has ever been able to enter. If it is felt that some other has entered, this is only delusion. In the totality of doubtlessness, doubt is the second thing. That doubt multiplies and becomes a mind full of doubts, and the Illusion of the world appears."
"One man came for dinner and said, 'We are seventeen people.'"
"As long as there are false notions in the mind, or the hope of happiness, the mind suffers a repetition of sorrow."
"Concept is the individual, the Jiva, and Jiva is the ego, Ignorance."
"Paramatman is devoid of knowingness."
"If we try to become, or be, it always brings in obstacles. Not becoming anything, is key. Don't even try to remember what Paramatman is. Have absolutely no thought of 'becoming' anything, and keep nothing in memory."
"When all the past, present and future go away, that which remains is your Self, Paramatman."
"How can one practice that which is?"
"Whatever is remembered is destined to be forgotten. Whatever is forgettable is other than the Self. These things, remembering and forgetting, only take place in Consciousness. You are without these."
"First you have to gain Knowledge, and then leave the Knowledge."
"This is the noble story of speechlessness. It cannot be achieved by any kind of means."
"Brahman is not a subject of meditation. This is the only thoughtlessness. The mind is false, so how can the vast Brahman be understood by it?"
"Who can describe the indescribable?"
"It cannot be understood, and cannot be known, even if it is explained. It cannot be imagined. Words cannot communicate it. It cannot be described."
"He is completely happy without doubt. People think that he behaves abnormally, but he is not aware that he is behaving at all."
"The contention of some is that Paramatman is witness to all, but those who know the Reality, the Siddhas, say that 'witnessing all,' is but a state of mind, and the Reality is devoid of any such state or hypothetical position."
"The disappearance of 'I' is the sign of realization. 'That' which is, is. It is neither the individual (Jiva), nor God (Shiva). That duality does not appear there. We also cannot say that there is nothing."
"Pure Experience is incapable of being pointed at."
"The 'rule of experience' is that it is not possible without duality. Experiencing means duality. The mother of experience is the daughter of a barren woman who is the original Illusion, or Maya, which is a concept of imagination."
"Where there is the phenomenon of experience, there is duality. Therefore, in the 'True Existence of Reality,' there is no place for experience. In the wake of Self-Realization, duality shies away."
"Experience and reporting experience to others are only within the field of Illusion."
"The dream within the dream is your thinking about what is Essential and what is non-essential, and when you realize that you are the Self, Atman, then you have this experience. You felt that the world is illusory. You felt that you are awake and that it is your waking state. You felt that you have obtained 'experience,' but still, your confusion, your illusion, is persisting as it was. You are yet talking about things in the dream. When there is true awakening, all the sense of 'being' disappears. Even the sense that you are the Self, also dissolves."
"Since childhood, when some awareness of this life dawned, the fear of death was imposingly menacing. As the vast experience of the universe was before our eyes, there was a constantly increasing hope to achieve and possess something very great, some kind of prosperity. It was felt that I must have an extraordinary possession in the present, and also for the future. So, a very strong desire was harassing me relentlessly. There was a firm conviction that this world is real, and that the next world that I am going to encounter is also real. Now, all that has proved to be futile, and I realized that this seemingly real world is only a mirage. Therefore, not a single thing is to be possessed and accumulated by me."
"He was engrossed in the world of people, and then he was brought to his own 'Aloneness'."
"In that place where he was banished to, he became convinced that he is not separated or estranged, that he is originally spread out everywhere, all-pervading, essentially One, alone."
"He is convinced that nothing has ever happened."
"You should leave aside the meaning of what the mind says. You should not follow what the mind says. Do not be attached to what the mind says. You should leave the mind and its interpretations."
"When you have actually seen that you are not, there is no necessity of a means and an end. You have seen that you are not existent. There is a confirmed realization that from top to bottom in the whole body, that 'you' are not there."
"The gaining of Knowledge takes away the Ignorance, and 'Supreme Knowledge,' or Vijnana, takes away that Knowledge. After this, you do not have to study. You are simply Pure Brahman. 'That' is an open experience. Bread that is already baked need not be baked again, and you do not boil rice that has already been boiled."
"If this Brahman does many unnecessary and wrong things, everything goes wrong. So, do not do anything."
"You are Paramatman, enjoy your own glory. Others are going to be pure by simply looking at you. You will find that things will happen as you say."
"That which is permanent is Brahman. That which is impermanent is Illusion (Maya). The 'All-Pervading Brahman' is impermanent. The 'Witnessing Brahman' is impermanent also. Qualified Brahman is impermanent. The Life-Energy, or 'Chaitanya Brahman' is also not permanent."
"All names are false. In Brahman, there is no bliss, therefore bliss is also false. Identification with Brahman is also a false name. 'Indescribable' is a word used to indicate it, but that is also false. The rule is that we have not to speak about 'It' at all."
"That which is not perceived is Reality."
"One who thinks that the apparent is real, insults Paramatman, and one who so insults Paramatman, becomes miserable. To forget the Reality is the original sin."
"The objects of the senses are produced by the sense-objects themselves. This is the mischievous nature of these objects. One who accepts them as real becomes miserable. If you persist in following the objects of the senses, you will surely be miserable, because you will only see that which is 'seen'."
"All differences are due to ego. See what a strange thing has happened! God is sacrificed before the goat."
"When Paramatman says, 'I am,' or 'I have experience,' or 'I have become Reality,' this is all ego. The ego, the sense of 'I,' undergoes change of outer form. This energy is the desire to enjoy. It is so skilful at this, that it tries to deceive even God. It changes its form, its quality, very swiftly and very skilfully, but does not deviate from its desire, its lust, to enjoy. The ego very easily deceives even the so-called 'Great Pious Sages.' It enslaves even the various hosts of gods, by inspiring desires in them."
"While the urge or energy of the ego is based on concept and imagination, the Reality has no aim before it. The imagination cannot measure the immensity of Reality. This means that the concept of 'I,' cannot know the nature of Reality."
"Any particular thing, person, or scene has no reality, but the one who takes it to be real is a fool. Really, he is totally mad."
"There is no 'other'. There is nothing like a 'second,' or another. The 'other' is not relevant. One who has understood this is the Siddha. One who has doubt is still a seeker, an aspirant."
"Now, no further conjectures please. The Self in itself is already accomplished. What further spiritual practice (Sadhana) does he need? Once the head is completely shaved, how can it be shaved again?"
"If a potter becomes a king, would he still take care of the donkeys? Why should he bother to prepare the clay? All the various types of effort and spiritual practices are the results of our own aptitudes. When one is beyond these, why should he bother about them?"
"Whatever is, is only Brahman. Now why fight over logic?"
"To try to know is ignorance."
"At the time of death the dirt is gone, and what remains is pure. Let one think that the death of the dirt has happened. The body is dirt. The intellect attached to body is dirt. Have no attachment to the dirt. If one is detached, who died? How did he die?"
"Not to make a statement in the mind is Brahman and to make a statement is Maya."
"It is foolish to try to see the sun with the light from a torch."
"When both the 'field of knowledge' and the 'knower of the field' are gone, only the Supreme Reality, the 'Parama Purusha' remains. It is experiencing without the experiencer or the observer. The evident meaning and the hidden meaning are both gone. Even the slight notion of saying, 'I am someone,' or 'something' is also gone."
"All people say that one day we will have to die, but nobody knows what 'dying' is."
"The Knowledge that is the fourth body, the 'Turya State' (SatChitAnanda), is not 'Pure Knowledge.' It means that 'you' remain. The Turya State is aware that 'you' and Brahman are two separate things. Turya indicates duality. Turya ends, it is not permanent, but Brahman does not end. Turya is Time, and Time implies ending. To end, is the nature of Time. Brahman has no end."
"To gain Oneself, by Oneself, is like deducting one from one. What remains in the equation 'one minus one' is the Supreme Self, Paramatman, who is without name and form."
"Finally, when we think very keenly about it, it is revealed that this experience comes into being of its own accord. There, all the various arguments are gone."
"When the notion that 'I Am' is gone, the complete withdrawal into 'Oneself' is what remains. 'I Am' is a conceptual state. When it is dropped, only Brahman, the 'Absolute' remains."
"Any completed work is not worth its name if you are not sure of yourself."
"Where there is Knowledge without any doubt, there is true contentment. This 'contentment' is not dependent on anything. This contentment is not the product of any rituals or actions that one has done."
"What are we? We are nothing. When 'me' disappears, bondage goes away."
"The ocean is as it is. Only the wave arises and disappears."
"The demon of doubt should be asked, 'Tell me who I am!' However, then he keeps quiet, because how can he show anything other than Brahman?"
"The gods and various deities are all Illusion. They are our own imagination."
"Examine what is the root of all things. Observe it. If you see clearly to the root and wipe out doubt, then there is only basic purity, fundamental clarity."
"Consciousness considers as true whatever is seen, or whatever appears as existing, and functions with that confusion."
"The body form is not our Original Existence. It is but a momentary unwanted state. If you very carefully look at it, you can burn the net of desires and longings without fire."
"Never forget the brilliant truth that you are formless, clean, pure, and stainless. You must be steady in that contentment which remains unmoved by anything."
"Freedom is always existing and does not need to be cultivated."
"Listen now to one great principle: One who has absolutely no doubt, is the Siddha, the Master."
"When man's intelligence surpasses the limit of the body, the Vedas cannot give any instructions."
"One who understands himself as The Self, is beyond sin or merit, and has transcended the boundaries of visible forms. That day is the 'Golden Day.' It is the day of drinking Immortal Nectar, Birth and Death are gone. That attainment is the state of 'Victory.'"
"The real worth is related to the original thing. That thing is made to assume various forms and the whole game is going on. It is a fun. It is an amusement. It is a play of imagination indulged in, in idle time. It is playful attitude, and idea of fun. There is no consideration whether there is profit or loss, good or undesirable. It is just merriment of Consciousness. There is no need to feel sorry or happy about it. It is just a joyful mood of Consciousness. However, one who takes this seriously as true, falls into an ocean of sorrows."
"Any particular thing, person, or scene has no reality, but the one who takes it to be real is a fool. Really, he is totally mad."
"All the power to construct or create new things is in a way the power of mesmerism. It is an art to create delusion before people's eyes. The one who takes these created forms as real and permanent is a fool."
"Narayana is the experience of the waking state. That experience does not happen because it is wished for, or because it is not wished for. It does not disappear because it is not wanted, and it does not happen in any way depending on the desire of the experiencer. The world comes into being and disappears as a natural phenomenon."
"If you try to know Him, you will be deceived. He is there without being known by anybody. Do not try to know Him. He is 'The Knower.'"
"How can 'One Consciousness' know anything 'other'?"
"If you try to know it, you will lose your faculty of knowing. You cannot meet the Reality. Only confusion is created by those who insist on trying to know it by experiencing."
"You are coming daily and asking me to tell you how you can catch yourselves, and I have agreed to do so. I know that you are not lost. I know it very clearly and therefore will supply you with your own address."
"The mind cannot imagine anything about the Self. If it tries to imagine about the Self, it ends."
"How can the speech understand that which is not knowable by the mind and intellect? The Self cannot be known by sitting in meditation for thousands of years."
"He is the eye of the eyes of all."
"It is only when everything that is to be told is finished, that the Knowledge of Brahman takes place. After the word ends, realization happens, and the word remains silent."
"There is no other appearance of anything but the One, everywhere. With this experience, the knot of ego is loosened, the hidden bondage of the body is slackened."
"It is for mental that we impose the image of God on a particular shape and colour of earth. The whole thing is only mental imagery."
"There was a false conceptual man who did not exist but was only imagined. He was working, and then he was nullified, being proved to be unreal, a non-entity. The whole life of one who has realized the falseness of 'I,' becomes Brahman."
"Good and bad are not different in Brahman. To him, hell and the portal of heaven, are the same. To him, Shiva is omnipresent in the Lingam symbol and in an insect in mud."
"The jiva is caught in the chain of birth and death by holding tight to the name and the form, the 'I, I' every moment. This has caused the chain of unending births and deaths."
"The more clever people are, the more they fight."
"There has been a false appearance of many in the One that is Brahman. This is Illusion. This is mesmerism. This Illusion is a game of hide and seek. It is a play, a cunning game of emotional imagination. One who knows her, will discard her immediately."
"If the game of chess or any other game will be proved true, then the world will be proved true. The world is not true. It is an appearance in Consciousness of illusory things that are going to disappear. The entire apparent world phenomenon is not real."
"Death can only be spoken about in relation to the body."
"In desire, there is bondage. Whatever you want is at a certain place. If you want it, you have to go there where it is located. You have to wait there until you get what you want, and sometimes, the desire is fulfilled. Then, when you get what you want and it cannot be carried away from that location, you have to remain there. This is the bondage because of desire. If you do not wish to be bound, you have to give up your desire. Where there is desire, there is detention, which means having residence living there (in the world)."
"Environmental circumstances are in relation to the intellect, or brain, and not the Self. If the intellect is transformed, the worldly life becomes unreal. Then there is no bondage of, or freedom from anything."
"What you are thinking of as 'awake' - some intense new passion for a worthy cause or a deep feeling of love for all existence is actually the deepest of deep sleep, much deeper than a feeling of boredom or indifference. Yours is an intense association with the Illusion. The bored and the indifferent are on the verge of leaving the lure of the temptress Maya behind, no longer swayed by her shiny attractions. They are on the verge of waking."
"The meaning of the 'Key of Knowledge' is that when the 'I' is stopped, the nuisance is also gone."
"The all-pervading, omnipresent Brahman is as it is, only 'I' am not. I am not, and in that egoless state everything is unqualified Brahman."
"If by doing but one insignificant action one could attain Brahman, then why would the wise not do that action? Who will not gain the 'Wish Fulfilling Tree', the Divine Tree by giving up the 'rag' of imaginary concepts?"
"Is not his speech, whatever he says also Brahman? His harsh language, seemingly meaningless babble, the speech of Brahman?"
"Those who follow the Vedas or other scriptures are only entangled in them. It is not possible to describe Brahman in words. Those who describe it have never visited that town. Only those who have not realized indulge in profuse description and endless talks. Only the True Guru (Sadguru) gives his Knowledge to worthy disciples by use of various tricks and examples. I have given it to you without your going to any trouble. I give out to you openly what was hidden in My heart. You have gone to such a land in which even the name of Death is not known."
"Many intelligent people study hard some system of yoga and increase their karma as 'do's' and 'don'ts' are impedements in their way, and they are caught in actions."
"In short, we must understand that one who constantly meditates on God becomes God. Then, what other God can one worship?"
"The question as to whether the realized sage should teach others or not, is a foolish question. Unless one is completely blind about the Self and Reality one would not ask this question. The problem of sinners and the ignorant are never solved and will never be solved. When there is understanding, the purpose of this Knowledge is over and the Knowledge itself disappears. When the worldly life is totally dropped, why bother about whether something is proper or not? For the 'Liberated One,' there is no duty as such remaining to be done."
"There are various paths of yoga, and rituals. These activities are full of ego and greed and are associated with the pride of having achieved certain goals, and the desire to achieve further goals. All of this is rooted in the false ego sense. Being prideful, one tries hard to attain many illusory achievements which are not actually real. This is the very nature of the root of Illusion. One who recognizes this is the highest man who has no need of these imagined achievements."
"It was quite a different kind of embrace. Both became Chaitanya, the Life-Energy itself, and the objective in their mind, to teach and to learn disappeared."
"You cannot cleverly think of some measures to be taken in order to remain or continue in That state. You are naturally 'That.' You have nothing to do to be constantly there. There is no becoming, or not becoming."
"If there is a certain notion that you have direct 'Realization,' it is only the delusion of a confused mind. This confusion is only the enhancement of the Illusion that is already there. It is the spectacle, the festival of Illusion. Every so-called 'Realization' is Illusion."
"Brahman is said to be 'all-pervading,' but when the 'All' is not real, how can Brahman be pervading it? What we see is not real, so how can Brahman permeate it? So long as that which is known is in the state of being seen, it is permeated. However, when the apparent thing disappears, what is there to be permeated? To be permeated by Brahman is only to be seen, or known. When 'knowing' ends, there is nothing left to be permeated."
"The ghost of hope (the desire for worldly happiness) extinguishes the lamp. Only if the ghost of hope is not allowed to come near, only then does the great 'Light of Chaitanya' dazzle the entire universe."
"Most people live their lives in vain, and give importance to useless worldly benefits, only to become miserable and anxious. The individual foolishly gives importance to objective things, which are not important at all, and remains ensnared in Illusion. The desire for more sensual pleasures only increases, and the hunger for indulgence is not satisfied. Desire breeds desire, and as long as this is so, the Self will not get Self-satisfaction or contentment."
"Many sages have tried very hard to attain various states, from the 'Knowledge of Brahman,' to the 'State of Liberation.' By describing them as the only desirable states to live in, that meant that they were proud of those states. The pride that one is attached to does not dissolve, so therefore those sages, with their particular pride, remained separate from Brahman."
"A form means that which is seen. In the seen, the main object is the cosmos or universal field, and in this field, the individual has a body as desired by him in order to have the enjoyments which are desired by him. He perceives all of this according to his strong desire. He has a fixed concept that he enjoys all of this world and accordingly gets the fruit of his practice. However, that form and those qualities which are the product of imagination, are bound to eventually disappear, and then the concern about gain and loss increases. Then again imagination, concepts, the strong desire which he calls 'determination,' and such repetitions by the individual who is attached to actions (karma), go on and on without an end. He does not give up his attachment to passion, which gives but fleeting pleasure. However, generally no individual is ready to give up attachment to desires."
"So long as there is a sense of something being amiss, or when some doubts still trouble the mind, there is the concept that there is something still wrong. One whose mind is not disturbed at all, no matter what may happen, is the one who is free from even the subtle body. One who does not feel shaken, even if any disaster may fall, is really Brahman."
"How can that which is formless and qualityless, ever be affected by actions? He is beyond joy and sorrow. He is not concerned whether a particular means is necessary, or no means are necessary."
"There are many that live in a conceptual state of being the Self, but really there should be no concepts of any kind. To attain Brahman, and to live in That state, are also wrong notions. There is no becoming Brahman. You are already Brahman. There is no question of becoming or not becoming. Gold cannot 'become' gold."
"The sadhu does not break. He is not concerned with what people say about him. He is not affected. The rules of this world are not applicable to Him. One, who being a sadhu, thinks about what is 'right behaviour', is not a realized sadhu, he is not Brahman. One who is 'Free' is Brahman, and what that Brahman is, naturally functions, as it is."
"There is no question of doing anything in this Yoga. One who tries to do something does not have confidence about himself. The one who is confident does not set out to do anything. He only looks at whatever is happening in the natural course of things. He looks on, and there is nothing else to be done."
"Everything emanates from Paramatman, so whatever is happening, and is going to happen in the future, is definitely going to take place. There is nothing to do, or to hold onto. When the thing to happen is thus naturally powerfully effective, there is no question of deciding or not deciding to do anything."
"Formerly there was a person, the 'me' who was imagined. Now, by listening to the teachings of the Vedanta, that imaginary person is gone. He was only a product of imagination, yet he was being harassed too much. That jiva, who called himself as 'I,' disappeared by the instructions of the Guru. 'I' and 'you' have both vanished. All of this, everything, without any doubt, is only Brahman. All actions, whatever they may be, are only Brahman. If the one from the one million is removed, what figure remains? How many should we count? If one is counted, many will have to be counted. Who is proud of that which is nothing? 'That' which is nothing, is Shiva."
"He is that 'Aloneness' which remains as peaceful Existence after the disappearance of the world of the five elements, which became tired after its multi-faceted internal play in all."
"When you expect that Consciousness should give it an expression, Consciousness itself disappears. There is nothing near 'That'. Nothing is there, which means that there is nothing near, there is only 'Wordless Non-Existence,' stillness. Where there are two, there can be experience. Where there is only one, who can have experience, and of what?"
"There is no need to do anything to bring completeness in Brahman. Whatever effort you will do to gain something will be nothing but Ignorance, or Avidya."
"After Liberation, what is remaining is flawless Brahman. Now what exists is not in the realm of experience, because without our going to meet it, it is as it is, without trying to remember it. It is not something objective that can be remembered. Memory disappears together with forgetfulness. It is beyond truth and untruth. It is not truth, and it is not untruth. 'That' which is, is. What 'That' is, cannot be told. Mind and intellect do not reach there. Words cannot express it."
"He knows everyone, yet nobody knows him. All that appears to be knowable and available by word is temporary. All things come into being and disappear. He is not supported by, or dependent upon Time. It cannot even be said that time knows him, as time has no entry there. Time has no power to live its life together with him. Time ends. It sets."
"The five elements, and the sixth, the sense of 'me' were all imposed on the Self. The 'five' were recognized to be false, and the 'me,' the sixth, was butchered like a goat. Now who remains to be united with Brahman? That which identifies, is himself false."
"So long as the 'me' as a jiva is separate, all the sciences, the Vedas, reciting of devotional songs, etc. have some place in life. When that 'me' is gone, all of that is finished. Who is to pray, or to offer devotion, and to whom? After the form of the ornament is gone, only the gold remains."
"Who can control the Illusion, the Maya? Only the one who has no regard for Maya can control Maya. Such a one places the same value on gold as he does on dirt. Only he can turn earth into gold. One who is convinced that it is all a concept to call one as 'gold' and one as 'clay' is truly powerful."
"Only what is destined to happen, happens. So why worry about anything?"
"Illusion is only visible to the imagination. If you have no imagination, the Illusion does not do anything."
"One whose mind is depressed is never free of anxiety as he is suffering from the false notion of being an individual."
"So, up to this point you have had the delusion of being an individual, a Jiva. As soon as the concept of being a Jiva is gone, the concept of God, Shiva, its counterpart, is also gone. The Illusion, Maya, has appeared to be very fearsome, but it is really non-existent. it is only an illusion."
"I am always non-active. Even with the mind, I do not project and conceive of any activity. Everything comes and goes of its own accord. Now the concept of bondage and freedom is uprooted and gone."
"That which is emotional, imagination, and conception is all objective. As is the concept, or imagination, so is the world. It is all conceptual."
"The tiger is definitely going to kill you and eat you, no matter what name you may give it."
"A blind man does not have a fly in his soup because he does not worry. The snake does not bite small children."
"If we please God, he will grant us a boon or a gift by virtue of which we will get, even more entangled in the delusion of Maya."
Shri Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj
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