In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Service without ideal of self…trains you to transcend all the artificial distinctions imposed by history and geography, and to realise that the human community is one and indivisible.
The best way to find your self is to lose yourself in the service of others… All other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.
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.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
All the lights of the world cannot be compared even to a ray of inner light of the Self.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
