Quotes About Enlightenment

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realize the Self.

Everything in the world was my Guru.

If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I' will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself

The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

You are already that which you seek

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

When the pot is carried, the space within the pot, Though conceived of as carried, Is it not the pot only that is carried? The Self too, like Space, remains motionless. 53. When the pot breaks, the space in the pot Merges one with the great Space. When the inert body passes away, the Self, seemingly in the body, Becomes immediately one with the Supreme Self.

The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

when there is no 'I' there is no karma.

It is beyond words or thoughts.

What introverted mind calls peace, outside as power is shown; Those who have reached and found this truth, their unity have known.

The fruition of this process is samadhi which yields release, which is the state of unsurpassed bliss. The revered Gurus also have said that release is to be gained only by devotion which is of the nature of reflection on the truth of the Self.

So long as they make efforts they will not be sages (jnanis).

A dreamer dreams that everyone else in his dream must awaken before he can awaken.

there is no doubt that the end of the paths of devotion and knowledge is one and the same.

The Self is the only Reality. (p. 38)

Lady with fair countenance! Understand that one who is not able to realise the Truth in his Heart by this knowledge of spiritual wisdom known as Kala Jnana, can never attain it even by studying countless crores ofsastras (scriptures) spread out like the sky.