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Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar


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Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.



Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.

Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.



The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.

The world, like a dream full of attachments and aversions seems real until the awakening.



Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.

Loud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation.



When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.

When your last breath arrives, Grammar can do nothing.



Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.

Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart.



There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.

There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.



The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.

The treasure I have found cannot be described in words, the mind cannot conceive of it.



Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.

Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to me. Happiness is never a burden to me, whilst sorrow is.



What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.





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