To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realise how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.
That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
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.
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
