174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

When certain circumstances of the body tend to happen, the time for insolvency begins. Everything indeed is going to go into insolvency. Therefore You should get your work done. As long as this 'shop' (the body) exists, complete all your transactions.

People are ready to die for their opinion, but not for the Self.

What is the essence of the world? Normality. Above normal is poison, and below normal is poison. Come to normality. Normality in the non-Self complex (pudgal), whereas the Self (Atma) is indeed the Self!

Normality takes one all the way to the Self!

What is the inherent nature of the relative self (pratisthit atma) like? It mimics what it sees, it does not have to be taught anything. Therefore, association should be with a truly (enlightened) person, a spiritually elevated person. And if there is association with bad people, then evil thoughts will arise.

It is only when the 'sense of doership' (kartabhaav) leaves that the attentive awareness of 'I am pure Soul' sets in.

When one realizes that, 'The Soul is a non-doer,' then one is considered as having attained the right belief of 'I am pure Soul' (samkit).

As long as one has the awareness that, 'I am the doer,' he has not realized even one fraction of the Self (Atma). The awareness that, 'I am the doer of any of the things,' will not help one to realize the Self.

In the state of Gnan (Knowledge of the Self), the Atma (Self) is the non-doer (akarta), in the state of ignorance of the Self, Atma (Self) is the doer (karta).