174 Quotes About Self-and-non-self

When doubt (shanka) does not occur, even for a moment, that is referred to as the Self (Atma).

As long as the doubts (shanka) related to the Self (Atma) do not go away, no doubt of the worldly life will leave.

Fearlessness (nirbhayta) arises through a Self that is free of doubt. After becoming free of doubt, asangata (a state of absolute separation) arises.

The entire world is in parparinati (the belief of ‘I am doing’ in what are results of the non-Self), no one has seen Swa-parinati (the natural state of the Self). Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is verily the state of the absolute Self (Parmatma pad).

The body is pudgal parinaam (the resultant state of that which is continuously undergoing change through the process of input and output) and Swa-parinaam (the resultant state as the Self) is within. The entire world is pudgal parinaam.

Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) will leave only when the belief of 'I am Pure Soul' prevails. Dehadhyas does not leave by simply saying, "The wife and children are not mine.

To have 'Known' means that dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') goes away. But in this case, dehadhyas has not gone and one has the intoxication of 'I know'; so what will become of him?

Once dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') is gone, the naturalness of the body increases a fraction at a time. And to whatever extent it becomes natural, that much samadhi (freedom from the effects of mental, physical, and externally-induced problems) will arise!

How can one let go of dehadhyas (the belief that, 'I am the body') whilst residing in dehadhyas? For that, go to a Gnani (a Self-realized being), the One who has become a tarantaaranhar (One who has become liberated and can liberate others). The dehadhyas cannot go away through dehadhyas.