174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

There is no problem if graha (things getting accumulated) does not turn into parigraha (acquisitiveness; that what takes one away from the Self). Parigraha leaves when murchha (spiritual unconsciousness) leaves. And when you become a non-doer (akarta), arambha (beginning of any action) leaves. Kevalgnan (absolute knowledge) occurs when arambha-parigraha leaves.

Intellect (Buddhi) illuminates the Non-Self (Non-Soul), the Self (Soul) illuminates the Self (Soul), as well as the Non-Self (Non-Soul).

All attributes of the prakrut (relative self) in the world have arisen due to wrong understanding. All this has arisen due to not understanding the truth. One has been wandering around for countless lives and still one considers oneself to be so great!

Acceptance of ignorance (of true Self) is the real path of Gnan (knowledge).

There is no realization of ‘who am I?’ ‘One’ is trying to remain hidden from his ‘own Self’. He knows all that is of the non-Self. It is a wonder that one remains hidden from his own Self!

What is the sign that one has attained the Soul; the Self? It is when one knows how to take a ‘picture’ of his relative-self (prakruti).

The ‘Self’ (Purush) and ‘Relative-Self’ (Prakruti), are two separate things. Self (Purush) is the Pure Soul (Shuddhatma) and ‘Relative-Self’ (prakruti) is ‘pudgal’ (non-Self complex of matter). Pudgal by nature is a complex of input and output; Self (Purush) by nature is Knowledge.

As long as one experiences oneness with the relative self (dehadhyas) of ‘I am’ in this unsteady part of mind, body, intellect, the chit and the ego, one will not find one’s real Self and he will not experience the bliss of the real Self.

One has to understand the line of demarcation between the Self and the Non-Self from Gnani Purush (the enlightened one). His explanation holds truth in all three times i.e. past, present and future. The light remains the same, even after hundreds of thousands of years.