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"It cannot be understood, and cannot be known, even if it is explained. It cannot be imagined. Words cannot communicate it. It cannot be described."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"You are coming daily and asking me to tell you how you can catch yourselves, and I have agreed to do so. I know that you are not lost. I know it very clearly and therefore will supply you with your own address."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"It is foolish to try to see the sun with the light from a torch."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"No second has ever been able to enter. If it is felt that some other has entered, this is only delusion. In the totality of doubtlessness, doubt is the second thing. That doubt multiplies and becomes a mind full of doubts, and the Illusion of the world appears."

~Shri Samarth Sadguru Siddharameshwar Maharaj

"Be so big that you disappear." ~Siddharameshwar Maharaj

“In Self, there is nothing to learn, nothing to express or confess, nothing to know, and no knower. The free One, swimming in the sea of Self, absorbed in the consciousness of the homogenous Being, and pure of thought, prattles in his delight of a pure heart.”

"Investigate what you know to its very end and you reach the unknown layers of your being. Go further and the unexpected will explode in you and shatter all. The crucial question is: “Who am I?”

Just see the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world perceived within consciousness; and look at consciousness from the outside; for you are not the consciousness. You, the Supreme Reality, are utterly beyond. Tat Tvam Asi." ~Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope." -Ramana Maharshi

"Just see the person you imagine yourself to be as a part of the world perceived within consciousness; and look at consciousness from the outside; for you are not the consciousness.

You, the Supreme Reality, are utterly beyond. Tat Tvam Asi." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"Wisdom lies in never forgetting the Self, the Supreme Absolute as the ever-present Source of both the experiencer and the experience.

I am beyond consciousness and so in consciousness I cannot say what I am. Yet I am." -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The Seer and the object seen are like the rope and the snake, -- just as the knowledge of the rope which is the substrate will not arise unless the false knowledge of the illusory serpent goes, so the realization of the Self which is the substrate will not be gained unless the belief that the world is real be removed." ~Ramana Maharshi

"The sage’s pure mind which beholds as a mere witness the whole world is like a mirror which reflects the foolish thoughts of those who come before him, and these thoughts are then mistaken to be his." ~Ramana Maharshi

"One who is Parabrahman does not know whether he is or is not. In the Parabrahman there is no awareness of existence, there is awareness of awareness only. As soon as awareness of existence comes, there is a duality and manifestation comes." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"To say that the universe is an illusion (māyā) is not to say that it is unreal; it is to say, instead, that it is not what it seems to be, that it is something constantly being made. Māyā not only deceives people about the things they think they know; more basically, it limits their knowledge to things that are epistemologically and ontologically second-rate." ~Wendy Doniger

"The mind is a nervous thief, the mind is a pure cheat. The ruin of sages, men and gods, the mind has a hundred thousand gates." ~Kabir

"To expound and propogate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare." ~Nisargadatta Maharaj

"The shackles of Ignorance are like iron shackles, while those of Knowledge are as if made of gold." ~Siddhrameshwar

"Words with mind fall back baffled from truth without touching it." ~Taittirīya Upanishad

"Setting aside all meritorious deeds (Dharma), just surrender completely to My will (with firm faith and loving contemplation). I shall liberate you from all sins. Do not fear." ~Krishna

"It is not pervading, or that which could be less pervading: there can be no place for it to rest nor can there be the absence of such a place. It is something as well as being nothing. How can it be explained?"

“In the attributeless still expanse of Reality (Parabrahman) the inspiration ‘I Am’ arose. This is itself the primal illusion.” -Dasbodh, ~Ramdas

"The Avadhut is not concerned with the things of the world, because the natural state of Self-realisation renders all else insignificant. Death and birth have no meaning; he meditates not, neither does he worship. All this world is a magic show, like a mirage in the desert. Concentrated bliss, alone and secondless, is Reality and that is the Avadhut." ~Avadhuta Gita 6.31-32

"Renounce, renounce the world, and also renounce renunciation, and even give up the absence of renunciation. By nature all-pervasive as space, knowledge Absolute are you." Avadhuta Gita, ~Dattatreya

"To seek and abide in the Reality that is always attained, is the only Attainment. All other attainments (siddhis) are such as are acquired in dreams. Can they appear real to someone who has woken up from sleep? Can they that are established in the Reality and are free from maya, be deluded by them?" ~Ramana Maharshi