All that is required to realize the self is to be still.
Remain still with the conviction that the self shines as everything yet nothing,
Within,
Without and everywhere.
A quiet mind is all you need.
All else will happen rightly once your mind is quiet.
As the sun on rising makes the world active,
So does self-awareness affect changes in the mind.
In the light of calm and steady self-awareness,
Inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.
Your concentration must come as easily as the breath.
Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold on to it.
All will come right.
Meditation is sticking to one thought.
That single thought keeps away other thoughts.
The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness.
By constant meditation it gains strength.
If the mind falls asleep,
Awaken it.
Then if it starts wandering,
Make it quiet.
If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind,
Stay still in that,
The natural state.
Meditation is not acquisition of anything new,
Nor is it a new faculty.
It is only removal of all camouflage.
Don't try to understand.
That's enough if you do not misunderstand.
Become conscious of being conscious.
Say or think I am and add nothing to it.
Be aware of the stillness that follows the I am.
Sense your presence,
The naked,
Unveiled,
Unclothed beingness.
It is untouched by young or old,
Rich or poor,
Good or bad,
Or any other attributes.
It is the spacious womb of all creation,
All form.
If you hold this feeling of I long enough and strongly enough,
The false I will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real,
Imminent I,
Consciousness itself.
Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity,
Spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice.
It is virtue,
Divine union and devotion.
It is heaven,
Wealth,
Peace and truth.
It is grace.
It is the state of divine silence.
It is the deathless death.
It is jnana,
Renunciation,
Final liberation and bliss.
Grace is always present.
You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky,
Far away and has to descend.
It is really inside you,
In your heart and the moment you affect subsidence or merger of the mind into its source,
Grace rushes forth.
Sprouting as from a spring within you.
You are awareness.
Awareness is another name for you.
Since you are awareness,
There is no need to attain or cultivate it.
The enquiry who am I is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.
You are already that which you seek.
The question who am I is not really meant to get an answer.
The question who am I is meant to dissolve the questioner.
It is always the false that makes you suffer,
The false desires and fears,
The false values and ideas,
The false relationships between people.
Abandon the false and you are free of pain.
Truth makes happy.
Truth liberates.
Real peace is happiness.
Fears do not form happiness.
The peace of mind which permeates the saint's atmosphere is the only means by which the seeker understands the greatness of the saint.
A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts.
What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now.
Absolute perfection is here and now.
Not in some future near or far.
The secret is in action here and now.
It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself.
Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect,
Whatever your idea of perfection may be.
All you need is courage.
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing.
Love is knowing I am everything.
And between the two,
My life moves.
The mind creates the abyss,
The heart crosses it.
All you need is already within you.
Only you must approach yourself with reverence and love.
Self-condemnation and self-distrust are grievous errors.
Your constant flight from pain and search for pleasure is a sign of love you bear for yourself.
All I plead with you is this.
Make love of yourself perfect.
Deny yourself nothing.
Glue yourself to infinity and eternity and discover that you do not need them.
You are beyond.
As you watch your mind,
You discover yourself as the watcher.
When you stand motionless,
Only watching,
You discover yourself as the light behind the watcher.
The source of light is dark.
Unknown is the source of knowledge.
That source alone is.
Go back to that source and abide there.
Reality is only one and that is the self.
All the rest are mere phenomena in it,
Of it and by it.
Before all beginnings,
After all endings,
I am.
What you are,
You already are.
Everything is local and temporary,
Except you.
Don't forget what you are.
Ultimately,
I am beyond being and non-being.
Find him who was present at your birth and will witness your death.
Stop imagining that you were born,
Have parents or a body that will die and so on.
You were never born,
Nor will you ever die.
