Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. ...Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
