174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

The Self (Atma) is itself in the form of Science (Vignan swaroop). That is why it indeed Sees science everywhere. There is no problem in getting married, but it is ignorance of the Self (agnan) when you differentiate 'this is mine' and 'that is yours'. To say 'I' in all places is science, and to do egoism is ignorance of the Self.

When one has not known anything but becomes infected with the ‘disease of knowing’; he is a grave diseased person. What is the result of knowing? One stops playing with the ‘tops’ [living as the relative-self] and starts playing with the Self [lives in the realm of the Self, The Soul]. The diseased one simply does the ego of knowing.

Maintaining self & non-self wisdom (judgment) of ‘this is Mine (of the True Self) and this is of the non-Self’ is the ultimate religion of moksha (liberation).

All worldly relationships are earnings of ‘foreign land’ (non-Self); only the earnings of the ‘home land’ (Self) will be carried with Us (in our next life).

You can be considered vitrag (free from attachment, enlightened one), only if you remain in the ‘real’. Raag-dwesh (attachment-abhorrence) occur when you come in to the ‘relative’.

Bhavnindra (asleep to the Self) means sleeping in one’s true self’s nature. And in that other sleep (sleeping at night), one is asleep in the Self and the non-Self.

The world is easy to win over but it is extremely difficult even for a second to remain separate from everyone including the world & remain in the true self (the pure soul).

Agnan (ignorance of the Self) too is a kind of a light. But it shows relative or worldly happiness, and Gnan (knowledge of the Self) shows real happiness.

Having born as a human, one has to distinguish between, ‘what is of the Self’, and ‘what is of the non-Self’.