174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

We are 'chetan' (Soul, eternal element), while obstacles are 'nis-chetan' (non-living). Therefore, 'chetan' will ultimately win!

That which cannot be seen by the eyes, nor heard by the ears, is ‘chetan’ (Soul, eternal element). That which can be heard by the ears; 'Television' can be seen, a ‘record’ can be heard; all that is not ‘chetan’. The ‘chetan’ can only be seen with divya chakshu (divine vision).

Worries occur because one has believed the phases of the body complex (pudgal – the mind, body, speech…) as his own.

Bhagwan’ (God) does not do anything! What does the ‘packing’ (outer physical complex; the non-Self – the mind, body, speech…) not do?

Where there is pleasure of pudgal (non-self complex that which charges & discharges) there is the worldly life. And where there is the bliss of the Soul, there is liberation.

When everywhere things looks the same, it is called Gnan (True Knowledge). Whether one is made to sit near the sewers of Bandra or in the gardens, both looks the same, because the inner bliss remains the same. The external is always changing.

Do not do anything for yourself. If you do only for others, then you will not have to do anything for your own self.

When one has no selfish-interest for his own self and for his relatives, and when all his tendencies are flowing towards [benefiting] others, then he will attain special powers (siddhi).

The one who lives as his worldly name [as the relative self], he will have worries for sure; the one who lives as his Real Self (as Pure Soul), he has no worries.