2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

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.

Nature is not some entity. Nature means coming together of circumstances. The effort of circumstances coming together is nature and the circumstances came together is ‘vyavasthit’ (Scientific circumstantial evidences).

When will the Soul be realized? As long as the wrong understanding of, ‘I am the doer, ’There are things I can do’, exists in this world; until such ignorance is removed, one will neither realize Soul nor will he find any information on the Soul.

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.

Happiness that comes and never leaves is called the bliss of the Soul.

Distress (vyakudta) gives rise to all the unhappiness, and all unhappiness is destroyed by attaining the distress-free (nirakudta) state from the Gnani Purush (the Enlightened One).

There is no place or circumstance in this world that can depress You (the Self).

There cannot be any time, situation or circumstance that can depress You (the Self).