“Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.”

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

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

From a clear knowledge of the Bhagavad-gita all the goals of human existence become fulfilled. Bhagavad-gita is the manifest quintessence of all the teachings of the Vedic scriptures.

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

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

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

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, recognising Self as Pure Being, Consciousness and Bliss.

You never identify yourself with the shadows cast by your body, or with its reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body either.

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

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 world, know and attain the Supreme.

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

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 delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

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 never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss.

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.

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

The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.

If being crazy means living life as if it matters, then I don’t mind being completely insane.

The more I understand the mind and the human experience, the more I begin to suspect there is no such thing as unhappiness; there is only ungratefulness.

When a coincidence seems amazing, that’s because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.

Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind.