One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draws his limbs within the shell, is to be understood as truly situated in knowledge.
The universe has been created out of knowledge and action and seems also possessed of consciousness.
A spring of infinite power is coiled up and is inside this little body and that spring is spreading itself.
All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation?
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Prana, the vital breath, is born of Self. Like a person and his shadow, the Self and Prana are inseparable. Prana enters the body at birth, but does not die with the body.
