4,826 Quotes About Self

One type of happiness comes from myness and the other type comes from the egoism. They are both mortal happiness & happiness of the original thing (eternal element, the Pure Soul) is immortal.

Where there is no expectation of not even a single thing, there arises the (independent) bliss (that which does not depend upon any thing or any person).

Your vyavahaar (worldly interactions) should be pure, only then can the self become pure. Nobody should complain [about you].

There is bliss where there are talks about the Soul and the Supreme Soul (atma-parmatma); there are no worldly talks there. There are no talks about acquiring attributes or good attributes there.

The relative (vyavahaar) is worldly, dramatic [as one would in a drama, not real]; and the Self (Nischay) is beyond the world, real, original, decided.

By keeping on being what we most intimately are, we can continually redefine ourselves so that we become what we have not been able to be. If we live this way, we surprise ourselves

Nischay (the firm resolve to remain as the Self) is within One's [the Self] control (Swadhin), vyavahaar (the relative; worldly interactions) is out of One's control (paradhin; subject to scientific circumstantial evidences) whereas the resultant effect [of vyavahaar] is even further out of One's control. We [the Self] only have to make the firm resolve to remain as the Self and not worry about vyavahaar. Vyavahaar is subject to external factors such as scientific circumstantial evidences.

That which does not make one to do artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) is called the Atma (the Soul).

Vyavahaar (the relative; worldly interactions) is something that needs to be settled (nikaali), whereas Nischay (the firm resolve to remain as the Self) is something that is to be acquired (grahaniya).