4,826 Quotes About Self

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

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.

Just be yourself instead of trying to prove yourself. For if you do, the former will automatically take care of the latter.

Other’s authority, other’s enjoyments, other’s space; people have become the masters of that which does not belong to the Self. If they become the owners of ‘Self’, there is no death; One is himself, the Absolute Supreme Soul.

Unless there has been 'Spashtvedan' (exact experience of the Soul), 'Siddhant' (established principle) cannot be attained.

You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a tree. The entire cosmos is expressing itself through your being.

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Who is Self? That which is “I am Pure Soul”!

Who doesn’t allow one to attain the ultimate liberation? The pudgal (non-Self complex made up of mind-speech-body). Similarly, what doesn’t let a gourd that is covered with mud to float atop? It is the mud. Bad ‘parmanu’ (subatomic particles of body complex) weigh very heavily. They drag the Soul (the Self) lower.

A person tastes the sweet pride of doer-ship by saying ‘I did this so well’. The taste of this subtle pride seems to be very sweet. There is suffering with the false imputation (of doer-ship). God is in the state of eternal bliss, and that is indeed the nature of the Self!