Quotes About Enlightenment

to full waking consciousness.

But we see also many souls whose light is only a dim spark because they are still slumbering in the delusion of separation.

Well then, Elise," Marceline says, using my name for the first time since I've known her. "I guess it's time for you to wake up.

Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.

For those ignorant of Raja Yoga, wandering in the darkness of too many opinions, compassionate Svatmarama gives the light of Hatha.

This "vision" of the Self is described in the Upanishads as Liberation (moksha). It is a freedom, a release, from doubt, from uncertainty, from the fears attending ignorance, forever. All questions are answered; all desires and causes for sorrow are put to rest; for thereafter, a man knows the secret of all existence. All previous notions of limitation and mortality, all darkness of ignorance, is swept away in the all-illuminating light of Truth:

Once caught in that Light, once illumined by the Eternal, does a soul will its restoration to embodied selfhood in the artificial multiplicity of samsara? I think not. Yet it re-emerges into that embodied life nonetheless—but with a new perspective: Samsara is now Nirvana. The mundane is now Divine. The mind and intellect are infused with a new awareness: all is bright with Divinity, within and without.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

It is true that the charms, temptations and attractions of the world are very powerful, but a burning desire for enlightenment does not allow an aspirant to be distracted from his path.

That which you call the devil is part of you. The myth of the devil and of evil is imposed on us by our ignorance. The human mind is a great wonder and magician. It can assume the form of both a devil and a divine being any time it wishes. It can be a great enemy or a great friend, creating either hell or heaven for us. There are many tendencies hidden in the unconscious mind which must be uncovered, faced, and transcended before one intends to tread the path of enlightenment.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil to lift off the bondage and illusion

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.

We only know the universe from the point of view of beings with five senses. Suppose we obtain another sense, the whole universe must change for us.

Where the whole world is awake, the sage sleeps.

But where the ignorant are asleep, there the sage keeps awake

When you step beyond thought and intellect and all reasoning, then you have made the first step towards God; and that is the beginning of life.

take Buddha. The central idea [is] sacrifice.

What is now wanted is a combination of the greatest heart with the highest intellectuality, of infinite love with infinite knowledge.

He is trying to justify himself, but he cannot fool Krishna.

We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth, until we experience it ourselves.

man may see a great deal of difference between grass and a little tree, but if you mount very high, the grass and the biggest tree will appear much the same. So, from the standpoint of the highest ideal, the lowest animal and the highest man are the same. If