Sublime

When one investigates within [or inwardly investigates] what the place is from which one [or it] rises as ‘I’ [ego or mind], ‘I’ will die.

The word Jnani means, “One who is the ‘Formless Knowing Presence’.” ― Beyond the dualistic realm of mind.

he did not instruct his devotees to think out problems but to eliminate thought.

What are the marks of a real teacher [sadguru]? A: Steady abidance in the Self, looking at all with an equal eye unshakeable courage at all times, in all places and circumstances.2

desireless activities, when undertaken and performed in a spirit of dedication, purify us, and the intellect thereby gains a new keenness. Out of such a purified head, a new faculty, as it were, arises. The capacity to observe oneself as an actor on the stage of life, is a capacity divine and noble, inasmuch as it immediately redeems us from our se

The Upanishads say that none but a Guru can take a man out of the jungle of mental and sense perceptions, so there must be a Guru.

To crush out all thoughts at their source is called vairagya (dispassion). So vichara (Self- enquiry) continues to be necessary until the Self is realized. What is required is continuous and uninterrupted remembrance of the Self.