2,111 Quotes About Self-realization

A path toward self-realization necessarily demands gratitude.

Oh my gosh! I was a hamster on the conditioned wheel of self-improvement. I never truly respected or valued my uniqueness as a human being. I never felt that I was a beautiful rose in life’s garden, because I spent my life comparing myself to other, brighter, multicoloured species, and they often made me look dull.

same knowledge, but opinion differs

Anger-pride-deceit-greed are in the form of ‘discharge’. But if a person does not have Self-realization, new ones will be charged within.

While experiencing effect (prarabdha – effect of past lives causes) the seed of illusory self effort (bhrant purushartha) is sown because one has the awareness [belief] of ‘I am the doer’. Otherwise, one simply experiences the effect and after then attains liberation!

Those who say ‘no’ are on the side of the pudgal (the worldly self) and those who say ‘yes’ are on the side of moksha (ultimate liberation).

Where there is no superior or an underhand; that is called moksha (ultimate liberation). Where there is no effect of any negative kind; where there is eternal bliss, where one can remain in eternal happiness; that is moksha.

Absence of any kind of worldly unhappiness is the first moksha (liberation). To experience (continuous) natural happiness is the second moksha, that is complete moksha (complete liberation).

Freedom from ignorance of the Self is the intent moksha (bhaav-moksha) and then comes [into effect] the actual moksha (drayva-moksha).