Flashes From Vedanta

1. Self and Atman are one and the same.

2. Self Realisation ends all superstitions.

3. To know that we are already free is called Knowledge of the self.

4. Realising Truth is becoming Truth.

5. Self-Realisation is the only means to destroy ignorance.

6. Waking up from the dreams of worldly illusions, we shall not be scared of the worldly problems.

7. The instant we know ourselves to be more precious than the matters of the world, we shall find all our desires and wants, the disturbances, vanish and find peace forever.

8. The Knowledge which helps to know about a matter itself gets veiled by the material knowledge.

9. Vibrant Consciousness is the apparent world.

10. The more one remains near the Self, the more perfect one becomes.

11. See yourself in everyone; search yourself in everything; feel yourself in everyone.

12. We must realise the Universal Consciousness, for then alone can death cease; then alone can misery cease when we are one with happiness; then alone can error cease when we are one with the Perfect.

13. Being one with the Atman is the highest state and whoever attains it is the highest.

14. It is preparation that requires time. Self-discovery needs no time.

15. I always search my Self in others utterly unaware of it.

16. To thing my Self in different from God is atheism.

17. Ignorance about the Self is death; Knowledge of the Self is Immortality.

18. Want of want is Knowledge Supreme.

19. Realisation is an unflickering flame whose light is called religion.

20. The only way to know the vibrant world is to go beyond vibration.

21. Be thoughtless; that is the Atman which is none but you.

22. I am the aspirant; I am the god; I aspire of myself.

23. Static and dynamic are but the states of Atman not the Atman. The Atman is beyond the both.

24. Ignorance about a thing is made known to us by the Knowledge itself.

25. Never is there ignorance in Knowledge. Can ever Knowledge be ignorance!

26. Knowledge is naked, free from all prejudices.

27. I am one without the second.

28. Frequency is pollution, may it be of the finest one.

29. It is thought that destroys the Supreme Silence.

30. Consciousness is always consciousness and cannot be felt. What we feel that is state.

31. We feel these states as conscious – it is maya or illusion.

32. Atman is Atman but any cause or effect.

33. Worldly love is limited; Unlimited is the love of Atman.

34. Love "Love".

35. Vedanta aims at Universal Oneness and not at Universal Brotherhood.

36. Vibrant knowledge is world, Non-vibrant Knowledge is Brahman.

37. Atman is the Ultimate, whatever be the path.

38. In the nature of the Atman, we are ever one and the unseparated.

39. Consciousness is the sole matter that matters.

40. Thought consumes thought.

41. We are unconscious of the consciousness which makes us know everything.

42. Knowledge realises Knowledge with the help of Knowledge.

43. Effort itself is ignorance. Atman is the abode of Eternal Knowledge and Eternal Love.

44. Silence is the greatest eloquence.

45. The Goal is set; the path is laid; march on.

46. Will, determination and concentration is the key to one’s Goal.

47. There is nothing though. Be tougher and the tough will become easy.

48. Respect yourself firsts, only then can you respect others.

49. One can have faith in others if he has faith in himself.

50. Be like a lion – fearless and alone.

51. Accept Truth; else you are dead.

52. Analyze yourself than analyzing others.

53. Love if you want ton live for others as their Self are your Self.

54. It is not so important how much you know. It is more important how much you feel.

55. Thinking of future we loose our present.

56. That which brings pleasure for you surely brings sorrow too.

57. What is worldly knowledge but ignorance!

58. What is worldly love but lust!

59. A man crosses many hurdles. But until he overcomes his passions and desires, he is a slave and a slave has no freedom.

60. It is fear that destroys a man.

61. To get life – give life.

62. Never try to please others at the cost of your ideal.

63. Bold and courageous is the path of spirituality and one must be the same who adopts it.

64. Be the very present your final moment; be the man in front of you your God; be the work you do the final work.

65. Spiritual help is the best help as it is the only permanent help.

66. Livelihood is for life and life for Truth.

67. The world is what we think.

68. Each and every object is Atman by nature but man is the only medium through which it is manifested.

69. There is no gradual manifestation of Truth; we ourselves are manifested as we search for Truth.

70. From Truth does the universe spring; to Truth shall the universe dissolve. Hence the universe has to accept the Truth for if the tree denies its seed, it shall die.

71. Religion is the discovery of the Self.

72. To know the Self is Knowledge, otherwise ignorance.

73. Work is the gross representation of our thought.

74. What we want to do is more important than what we do.

75. A true devotee loves God simply for the joy of loving Him as God is his beloved.

76. If we are to work for anyone, we must work for God. If we are to be the servant of anyone, we must be the servant of God.

77. He who loves his Self loves God.

78. Bliss of solitude is not in solitude is not in solitude. It can be felt even in multitude. It is not in living lone but in the self.

79. Peace is within you i.e. Eternal Peace cannot be felt from without as that is your Self.

80. The cause of our happiness and woes is our living with the states of ourselves. But to be conscious of the feeler of these states is Peace.

81. Life is nothing but search of Truth.

82. He is truly wise who can tell in the deepest sorrow, "O Lord! You are everything."

83. Vairagya is the degree of clinging to Truth in the adverse.

84. See the Creator behind every creation.

85. We are alone in this world, and the day we realize it, from that very day we gradually but surely become Perfect.

86. That which helps us to overcome superstitions beliefs is religion.

87. Religion is that which holds.

88. Always stick to Truth.

89. True religion is having full concentration on work.

90. Be pure and prefect; Truth will surely perfect on you.

91. Religion leads us from individual to universal.

92. Complete faith is complete Knowledge.

93. Our mind is nothing but a cluster of thoughts.

94. We see, feel and judge others by our thoughts.

95. Meditation is the thought of one.

96. One becomes what one thinks.

97. Never be afraid. Your Self is the only Truth. To know the Self is the Supreme Knowledge.

98. Think your thought.

99. The world is nothing but the apparent projection of the Self.

100. Think of the Infinite, the thought will cease and you will become the Infinite.

101. Each wave is but the Oscan itself.

102. We are always in consciousness. The distance between us and the world in nothing but a utopia.

103. We ourselves create our own world and get involved in it.

104. If we are to enjoy more, we are to sacrifice our individuality.

105. Fortunate are they indeed who in the Supreme Self have lost their identity.

106. Observe – in you shall you find the roots of all thoughts.

107. Desire the desireless.

108. Sight is there as there is the Seer.

109. The Seer is more true than the sight. The sight may be many but the Seer in one and indivisible.

110. There is no relation between the Absolute Truth and the Relative Truth.

111. Our Soul (Atman) is a stationary platform on which our desires and wants are always dancing.

112. Thinking of the matter, we make ourselves cheaper.

113. Is there any moment when you do not feel yourself? But you seem to feel others. This is ignorance or illusion.

114. As fire consumes everything but nothing can consume fire, similarly the Atman is the Supreme knower and itself does not become an object of knowledge.

115. Who has got more right than me to know my Self? I always use my Self and yet is not conscious of it!

116. Atman is my refuge; Atman is my repose.