Anandmath

“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”

~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj.

"Now why is there any comparison at all? Why do you compare yourself with another? This comparison has been taught from childhood. In every school A is compared with B, and A destroys himself in order to be like B. When you do not compare at all, when there is no ideal, no opposite, no factor of duality, when you no longer struggle to be different from what you are - what has happened to your mind? Your mind has ceased to create the opposite and has become highly intelligent, highly sensitive, capable of immense passion, because effort is a dissipation of passion - passion which is vital energy - and you cannot do anything without passion.

If you do not compare yourself with another you will be what you are. Through comparison you hope to evolve, to grow, to become more intelligent, more beautiful. But will you? The fact is what you are, and by comparing you are fragmenting the fact which is a waste of energy. To see what you actually are without any comparison gives you tremendous energy to look. When you can look at yourself without comparison you are beyond comparison, which does not mean that the mind is stagnant with contentment. So we see in essence how the mind wastes energy which is so necessary to understand the totality of life.?

~ J. Krishnamurthy.

"He alone knows to whom He will reveal Himself under which form. By what path and in what manner He attracts any particular man to Himself with great force is incomprehensible to the human intellect. The Path differs indeed for different pilgrims."

~ Sri Anandamayi Maa.

"There are two ways: one is looking into the source of 'I' and merging into that source. The other is feeling " I am helpless by myself. God alone is all powerful and except throwing myself completely on him there is no other means of safety for me" and thus gradually developing the conviction that God alone exists and the ego does not count. Both methods lead to the same goal. Complete surrender is another name for Jnana or liberation."

~ Sri Ramana Maharishi.

"A death-bound littleness is not all we are, Immortal is our forgotten vastnesses, Await discovery in our summit selves."

- Savitri.

प्रकृत्यैव च कर्मणि क्रियमाणानि सर्वशः I
यः पश्यति तथा आत्मानां अकर्तारं सः पश्यति II
~ Bhagwad Gita.

“He who sees that this entire nature is working on its own, bound by its own rules and likewise that the self (Individual) is not the doer in any way, he sees indeed”.☺️🙏