Self Realization quotes
That person realizes peace who, relinquishing all desires, exists without craving and is unidentified with the mortal ego and its sense of "mine-ness."
Self-realized sages behold with an equal eye a learned and humble Brahmin, a cow, an elephant, a dog, and a dog-eater.
Spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization
If there is no friction within yourself, the chances of you getting into friction with somebody is minimized
Verily, nothing else in this world is as sanctifying as wisdom. In due course of time, the devotee who is successful in yoga will spontaneously realize this within his Self.
He who is of purified intellect, who controls the mind and senses, feels his self as the Self-existing in all beings.
Renunciants who are desireless and wrathless, mind-controlled, and Self-realized, are completely free both in this world and in the beyond.
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God has not to be earned. He has only to be sought. Meditation is the only way. Beliefs, reading books - these cannot give you realization... Meditation brings proof of the existence of God
Self-realization is not something one can learn from books; it comes only through personal experience. Realization of Truth, the experience of God — not dogma merely — is what every religion should bring to its followers
The essential proof of Self-realization—of God's consciousness in you—is to be truly and unconditionally happy. If you are receiving more and more joy in meditation, without cessation, you may know that God is making manifest His presence in you.
Intellectual knowledge of God does not mean that you know God. A great mistake in the modern world is reading about God or listening to sermons about Him without trying to commune with Him, thinking that actual communion with God is impossible
All souls are equal. The only difference between you and me is that I made the effort. I showed God that I love Him, and He came to me. Love is the magnet from which God cannot escape.
Theoretical knowledge cannot give you a realization about God. So don't waste your time on too much theory. Those who do so becomes lost in the jungle of reason and never get beyond mere theories
Self-realization is the knowing—in body, mind, and soul—that we are one with the omnipresence of God
When you realize yourself as a child of God, what karma have you? God has no karma. And you have none, when you know you are His child.
Guru is one who knows God, and who shows the way to Him. To follow a divine manifestation is the sure way to God-realization. One who knows God becomes the speaking voice of the silent God
There is but one religion of God, one Truth underlying the different names of religion. That universal state of consciousness is very hard to attain unless one has Self-realization, the knowing that we are souls and that all souls are a part of the One God
After uniting his soul to God, the yogi may still maintain the dual relation—the liberated devotee, and God as the Object of adoration
God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him.
Self-realization means to know the truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things — strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality — will be added unto you
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Knowledge of the scriptures is beneficial only when it stimulates a desire for practical realization; otherwise, theoretical knowledge gives one false conviction of wisdom
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the 'NOW' the primary focus of your life.
If you constantly bow down to everything, genuinely, not as an exercise, not because somebody has told you, genuinely if you bow down to everything that you see, within yourself and outside of yourself then you will see there will be no such thing as 'you' left. When you are devoid of you, you are always the same.
Before you go to bed, everything that is not you, keep it aside. They may be precious to you, keep it aside, one day when you successfully keep everything aside that you are not, what you are will be there
There is a logical dimension to you and there's a dimension beyond that. If you do not explore both you will be an incomplete human being or you will be only half alive.
Self-realization means to realize how foolish you have been. Everything has been right here within you and you did not get it
When heaven-sellers lose the market, the drug-sellers will gain. In this cusp, making Humanity Conscious enough to experience nameless ecstasies of one's interiority is the challenge of our times
If you live on the surface, you just live as a piece of creation. If you go to the core, you are the very creator himself.
The easiest thing in the existence is self-realization. It is just that you are willing & unwilling at the same time
Being a seeker means no matter what the Vedas said, what Krishna or Shiva said, you have to know the truth in your own experience
To the knower of Brahman (spirit), all the Vedas (scriptures) are of no utility than is a reservoir when there is a flood from all directions
Among thousands of men, perhaps one strives for spiritual attainment; and, among the blessed true seekers that assiduously try to reach Me, perhaps one perceives Me as I am.
Yoga is the path of spiritual action, the infallible means by which a concept is transmuted into realization. For those who embrace this "real religion," there is no waste of any holy effort
The real Kriya Yoga way (life-force control) is not a bypath. It is the direct highway, the shortest route, to divine realization
Guru serves as a guide in the dark forest of life. If you follow him, he will lead you out of the darkness. If you try to find the way alone, you may needlessly lose yourself in the forest for many incarnations.
A yogi who has risen above delusion and attained Self-realization, and who having tasted divine bliss is eager to share it with true seekers, finds supreme joy in selflessly helping others to liberatio
The wisdom-manifesting yogi fills his mind with scriptural studies and spiritual meditative perceptions that contribute to soul-realization.
Two persons who unite their lives to help each other toward divine realization are founding their marriage on the right basis: unconditional friendship
By his mere presence one who has reformed himself is able to reform thousands, though he may not utter a single world. Like a rose, he diffuses his fragrance to all.
All good human experiences — marriage, love, success, study, meditation, exercise, self-discipline — are necessary steps in the growth of the fruit of Self-realization.
the biggest advantage, the biggest challenge, the biggest possibility that we humans have in our lives is we are capable of realizing who we are
The more you know about something, the better you can handle it. The more you know about Yourself, the better you can handle Yourself. This is called self-realization.
If you are very conscious, brahmacharya involves nothing, it is very simple. You wake up every day in the morning like you were just born, you go to sleep like you would die. In between, whatever is useful to everyone you do.
Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one
When every moment, you experience yourself as the source of creation, not as a piece of creation, then you are realized
Do not settle for intellectual satisfaction about truth. Convert truth into experience, and you will know God through your own Self-realization
Save the heart from overwork; fear and anger overtax it. Give rest to the heart by the Self-Realization method, and cultivate a peaceful attitude of mind.
The grandest purpose of life is not to know human love or to produce children or to win men's fickle acclaim; man's sole worthwhile aim is to find his Self.
The devotee bent on liberation understands that all learning pertaining to the phenomenal worlds is partial, uncertain, relative, and unsatisfying. Realization of God is the only true, permanent, and absolute knowledge
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence.. To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth — the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul