Quotes About Enlightenment

Excerpt from The Seeker's Mind

Excerpt from A Sri Chinmoy Primer

My meditation Is my mind's Instant ignorance-illumination And Bondage-liberation.

Americas special strength lies not in frightening the weak and challenging the strong, but in strengthening the weak and illumining the strong.

The secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

His efforts has made load of my karma been removed, and I am now free of karma.

By the karma of good actions, some come to serve the Perfect Guru.

Through the perfect karma of good deeds, one meets the Perfect Guru, whose speech is perfect.

When the body is filled with ego and selfishness, the cycle of birth and death does not end.

Serving the Guru, I have found eternal peace; my ego has been silenced and subdued.

There is one awareness among all created beings. None have been created without this awareness.

Know the state of your inner being; meet with the Guru and get rid of your skepticism.

Look here and know who you are. Instantly you will find freedom, and this suffering--hitchhiking from womb to womb--will instantly stop. The only way is to look within.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the 'I' is not. It is beyond your reach; you have only to reach out beyond yourself and you will find it.

If you have contact with pure consciousness even for a moment, you are liberated.

Consciousness is spotless, formless and prior to intellect.

The light which you see outside arises from your own light. The light of the sun and the moon cannot be compared to the light of your Self.

I am Atma, the Self, formless, without modifications and pure,

One who knows the secret of that LOVE finds the world full of Universal Love

Dio illumina la mente e splende in essa. Non si può conoscere Dio per mezzo della mente, si può solo rivolgere la mente all'interno e fondersi con Dio.

Unless a man live the ordinary life and check every incident as the projection of the Self, not swerving from the Self in any circumstances, he cannot be said to be free from the handicap of ignorance

Moksha is defined as the steady glow of the Self in perfection.

The third one is culturing the mind. One who has never meditated has no right to even touch the book of Ashtavakra.

Someone who does not have any responsibility can feel very detached, 'Oh, I am doing nothing. I am free.' But that freedom has no value. If someone who is responsible for the whole of society, the whole kingdom can say, 'I am not doing anything' in spite of this responsible job; then that 'not doing' something is great. That is enlightenment.