“Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.”

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

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.

The awareness of mortals falls short. As long as they’re attached to appearances, they’re unaware that their minds are empty. And by mistakenly clinging to the appearance of things they lose the Way.

To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.

There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.

Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life.