4,826 Quotes About Self

No matter how many ‘slices’ you make of the relative, would any slice of the Real ever be made?  

You do not have to renounce anything. The path of liberation is not one of acquisition or renunciation at all. Acquisition and renunciation are actually a part of the auspicious and inauspicious path. This [Akram Science] is actually the path to liberation; it is the path of [attaining] the absolute state of the Self (Parmatma pad). One only has to understand it.

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.

It is not in Our [the Self's] control to acquire or to renounce. They are both [activities] of the non-Self and are subject to external factors such as scientific circumstantial evidences.

Renunciation and saiyam are two different things. Renunciation is where one gives up all marital ties, parental ties, financial ties and material possessions. What is saiyam? When anger, pride, deceit, greed and attachment-abhorence are under control, then it is considered as saiyam. 

What is saiyam? It is a state in which One remains unaffected by the effects of both, upsarga (externally induced suffering) and parishaha (internally induced affliction). And if one were to get affected, then One would simply continue to Know the effect but would not suffer (vedey) the effect. And even if he were to suffer the effect, He would still simply Know it; that is known as saiyam.     

As long as one does not have Knowledge of the Self, his renunciation (tyaag) will give result. And after attaining the Knowledge of the Self, there is no renunciation; there is only a vow (vrat). A vow is that which prevails on its own.    

The Lord used to See His own penance Himself! 

Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways.