2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

The result of external penance and renunciation is worldly life, meaning that one acquires material pleasures and gradually one even attains the path to liberation. However, there is no liberation without Knowledge of the Self (Atma Gnan).

Whenever pain is felt, it is because complete awareness is not there.

When the realization of what is beneficial and harmful in worldly life sets in, meaning the awareness of all aspects of what is beneficial in worldly life and all aspects of what is harmful in worldly life arises; that is when complete awareness (jagruti) related to worldly life arises. After complete awareness of worldly life has arisen, then the awareness regarding what is beneficial and harmful to the Self arises.

Those with awareness (jagruti) about worldly life will not have any divisiveness due to difference of opinion (matbhed) arise anywhere in worldly life.

The knowledge that makes one emotional is worldly awareness. Real awareness does not make one emotional.

From where has awareness (jagruti) arisen? From bitterness.

Nothing is going to come under Your control, nor should anything be taken into control, just keep Knowing. 'You' [the Self] are the Knower-Seer-full of eternal bliss.

To keep Knowing is Your intrinsic nature. To keep getting spoiled is the nature of the non-Self complex (pudgal).

All actions are of the non-Self complex (pudgal), they are of the prakruti (relative self) and they are not under Your control.