Quotes About Awareness

Take up anything that you see or feel, a book for instance; first concentrate the mind on it, then on the knowledge that is in the form of a book, and then on the Ego that sees the book, and so on. By that practice all the organs will be conquered.

Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

The Yogi says, religion is practical if you know first why misery exists. All the misery in the world is in the senses. Is

The concentrated mind is a lamp that shows us every corner of the soul.

even so the sage can draw all his sense-organs inside," (Ibid. 58.) and nothing can force them out.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I.

We see the world as we are.

There was a stump of a tree, and in the dark, a thief came that way and said, "That is a policeman." A young man waiting for his beloved saw it and thought that it was his sweetheart. A child who had been told ghost stories took it for a ghost and began to shriek. But all the time it was the stump of a tree. We see the world as we are. Do

The purer the mind, the easier it is to control it.

but what they do without knowing it, do knowingly.

Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them.

Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance.

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177)

Freedom is to lose all illusions.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to concentrate my mind upon this glass, excluding every other object from my mind except this glass. But the mind is wavering. When it has become strong and does not waver so much, it is called Dhyana, meditation. And then there is a still higher state when the differentiation between the glass and myself is lost — Samadhi or absorption

Therefore, beware of everything that takes away your freedom. Know that it is dangerous, and avoid it by all the means in your power.

To me the very essence of education is concentration of mind, not the collecting of facts. If I had to do my education over again, and had any voice in the matter, I would not study facts at all. I would develop the power of concentration and detachment, and then with a perfect instrument I could collect facts at will.

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.

Yoga is the science which teaches us how to get these perceptions [direct experiences of God].

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

First hear, then understand, and then, leaving all distractions, shut your minds to outside influences, and devote yourselves to developing the truth within you. (I. 177) PATIENCE

Where there is fire, or in water or on ground which is strewn with dry leaves, where there are many ant-hills, where there are wild animals, or danger, where four streets meet, where there is too much noise, where there are many wicked persons, Yoga must not be practised.