With the firm conviction that what shines within oneself as ‘I’ alone is God, meditating only on ‘I’ is alone what is called meditating on God.

‘How to control the mind?’ Bhagavan replied, ‘Only if something exists as mind, the question of subduing it is worthwhile. If you find out the real nature of mind by investigating who am I, you will know that there is no such thing as a mind.’

Sri Sadhu Om never worried about what anyone thought about his teachings or if the world did not respect them. Regarding books released under his name, he once said, ‘I just gave answers that I knew to those who posed questions to me.

The adjuncts of body and mind that seemingly transform the awareness ‘I’ into ego are just a false appearance without any real existence, like the snake seen in a rope. Just as there are not two things there, namely one snake and one rope, there are not two ‘I’s called ego and ātman.

This self-attention is precisely the technique of self-investigation.

We consider something as ‘difficult’ those we do not like or those we cannot do or that we do not know. That which we already like (icchā, will, desire), that which we have already acted upon (kriyā) and that which we already know (jñāna) – that alone we call ‘easy’.

Instead of frittering away one’s energy to attain the much-cherished Godhood through the four yōgas, it would be more comfortable, more meaningful and best to know oneself first by scrutinising who am I: ‘What is the real nature of my existence?’

Even the rich man is dissociated from his external sources of pleasure in deep sleep, and despite this dissociation, he is pretty happy.

the very nature of attending to ourself is itself grace. This means that whatever thing we attend to, witness, observe or look at, that thing is nourished and will flourish, being blessed by grace.