174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

This ‘good’ and ‘bad’ that we see; are the states of the body complex, the non-Self (pudgal). Do not separate them into ‘this is good’ and ‘this is bad’. Such distinctions have been made by, those believing in dualities. These dualities are vikalps (intellectual ideas; contrary thoughts; not reality). The nirvikalpi, one with awareness of the Self, sees both the good and the bad as vibhavik avastha, as states of the non-Self.

The self is in the form of one’s own projection. So one becomes whatever the self projects. Then why is it (Self) called nirvikalpi (free from false projection)? It is because it (self) has become vikalpi (came under the false belief, ‘I am Chandubhai’); it had to be called nirvikalpi.

The world is true on the basis of ‘theory of relativity’; it is not true on the basis of ‘reality’.