If you hold onto your pride or ego, you will drown.

One who has been performing rituals to gain spiritual knowledge has wasted his life.

All worldly affairs are managed by the intellect.

An ignorant one binds himself with his own concepts.

The realized have said that the Self is unbound.

Awareness exists in sleep but it is not noticed. The air in this room is invisible - but it still exists.

When perception arose, concepts of space, time and object were (seemingly ) created.

As is your conviction ( I am the body - I am the Self ), so will be your experience.

By giving up 'I know and I don't know' , one attains the natural state.

Advaita, without duality, means you are alone, there is none else.

The one who conceives is without any form.

Do not waste your time getting involved in others' affairs.

Never harbor hatred in the mind.

Truth is without any distinction.

When duality ends, there is no sin or merit.

Do not be concerned about anything. One has to act without pride of knowledge.

Your birth will be in vain if you do not utilize it for understanding Reality.

If one tries to 'see' IT, it will recede.

You have to seize the trophy yourself.

One should again and again take notice of how this general pure knowledge pervades us before it takes up an object. ( As between pure intelligence and a thought )

For long has the seeker traveled without a Guru, in search of Truth. But there is no one to show him the destination. Aeons pass thus in fruitless travel, while Truth is close at hand.

We build a temple and in that we install an idol of God, and we believe that the idol has some power. Only a fool worships an idol.

It is not possible to come to a decision only on the strength of your opinion.

It is the hand that lifts and one says "I lift" - it is the eye that sees and one says "I see" - It is the nose that smells and one says "I smell" - Who is this ego arrogatting "I"?

One ought to live with an open and clear mind without retaining irrelavant thoughts.

Don't try to look through someone else's eyes.

One who gives us trouble, liberates us from the ego of the body.

The burden of the desire to take revenge falls on the mind and the result is only misery.

Fear creates misery.

All these gross bodies are actually living temples.

One should be alert within oneself.

If you do not get rid of the conviction that 'it is impossible to get rid of doubt', you will labour mindlessly.

You have to recognise the one who has no delusion (editor's note: externally at first, in the teacher, then in yourself)

There is not a single being without awareness. Further, there is no creature that worries and frets like a human being.

Truth cannot be avoided. It cannot be distorted or changed in any way.

Actually, there is no bondage.

Duality is due to two 'entities' - the 'seer' and the 'seen'.

All paths lead to unreality.

All you need is awareness of being - not as a verbal statement but as an ever present fact.

You should understand this clearly - If one thinks that one is the body, one becomes a slave of mind and suffers accordingly.

Be wakeful to that state which is prior to the sprouting of words.

Real meditation is to abide in this sense of being.

You have a mountain of concepts and words. To get rid of these, you use other concepts. When you throw out all the concepts, including your primary concept, then whatever is, IS.

All this spirituality is only for understanding your true nature. Unless you realise your true nature, there will be no peace for you.

Finally, you have to understand that the principle which you are using to talk, to move about and operate in this world, is not you.

My silence sings - my emptiness is full.

Living is Life's only purpose.

Under the right teacher the disciple learns to learn, not to remember and obey.

That you are, you know. What you are, you don't know. Find out what you are.

Be earnest and you will not fail to break the bonds of inattention and imagination.

Find the spark of life that weaves the tissues of the body and be with it. It is the only reality the body has.

You are looking for the cause of what you are not.

Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention - What you are (at present) is the result of inattention and what you will become, will be the fruit of attention. Inattention obscures, attention clarifies.

Awareness and matter are the active and passive aspects of pure being.

You can skip all the preparation and go straight to the ultimate search within.

The mind craves for formulations and definitions, always eager to squeeze reality into verbal shape.

Be aware of being conscious and seek the source of consciousness - that is all.

The shifting fortunes of your ego determine your values.

You give reality to concepts, while concepts are distortions of reality.

Reality makes the present so vital, so different from past and future - which are only mental.

Cease looking for reality in a dream and wake up.

If you demote the life principle to mere self-identification with the body, then the life principle is not given the status which enables it to unfold itself.

Right here, right now, drop your identity with the body and sit still - drop also the identity with the name.

Those who really understand will abide in themselves.

The one who understands the transiency of 'all things' is eternal.

Merely parroting the opinions of others, that is not knowledge (Immediate Knowing).

You may adopt any concept that will make you happy but remember that it is still only a concept.

If the dynamic, manifest principle does not get caught up in the concept, then it has no 'birth' and no 'death'.

At the highest level, in reality, nothing is. At the wordly level, everything is.

A doubt has arisen and you are trying to find a solution but who is it who has this doubt? Find out for yourself.

If you continue in the realm of intellect, you will become entangled and lost in more and more concepts. The riddle of spirituality cannot be solved by your intellect.

Investigate yourself; this is the purpose of your being.

What you hear must enter you like an arrow and hit something deep within you.

The search itself is the trap. You are already what you are seeking. You think there is something to attain or to get. You have never been anything other than that, and never could be. We hear that, but how many of us really take a good look at it and stick with it, hang onto it? What do we do? 'That is not good enough!' We will race away and look at somebody else. We will go to somebody else, hear somebody else, read another book or do this or do that, thinking we will get the answer somewhere else. But the only place the answer is, is with you. It is not with anybody else. You already are that. You can't be anything else other than that.

With the concept, with the words, we can only point at it. We can only point you to where to look. But it is something that cannot be grasped with a word, because the word is never the thing. Have a look. If that sense of presence wasn't there, if you weren't that, could there be consciousness or could there be mind or awareness or whatever you would like to divide it into? They say it is unborn. Unborn means not originated. There is no origin to it. It wasn't created. It had no beginning. So, you can't really say it is or is not. It is self-arising and ceaselessly arising. It is futile to try to clutch onto it or latch onto it with a concept or a word or an idea or a thought. But, basically, you can't get out of it.

You are total awareness, always and ever. Take the reflections in the mirror. It is total mirror. Have the reflections touched it or contaminated it in any way, though they might appear to? The mirror might appear to be full of reflections, but they haven't touched the mirror in any way. It is the same with that awareness. It is the same with the cloud over the sun. The sun is always there in its totality, no matter how thick the cloud is. You can never really say the sun is not there. After a while you know it is there, despite the thickness of the cloud, even though you are not seeing it. It is trying to grasp it with the mind, with a concept, that keeps you in the trap. Realize you don't have to. Bring it back to its simplicity always. It is nondual; it is one-without-a-second. Stay with it until that understanding is the norm.

Awareness is all there is. You can't say it comes from anywhere, because it is all that there is. We talk about non-duality. It is never born; it never dies. It is just unceasing. It is constantly and ever and all that there is. Yet, it is no thing that can be grasped in any way, shape or form. It has no beginning and no end, no time, no space. All those things appear in it. They are all things. And things can't grasp what to the thing is no thing. It can't grasp it. It is just like asking 'where does space come from?' when you ask 'where does awareness come from?' Can you find a centre to space? Can you find a circumference to space? Can you postulate anything outside of space? What would it be in? It must be in space! It is the same with awareness. It is everywhere. It is every 'when'. It is all times and all places.