Explore · 31 sayings
Knowledge & the Self
“Knowledge exists, man only discovers it.”
“To know God is to become God.”
“Man is not mind, he is soul.”
“Man is the nearest approach to Brahman.”
“Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!”
“Time is in me, not I in time.”
“Vedanta formulates, not universal brotherhood, but universal oneness.”
“The highest good is the realisation of the Self.”
“There is no other teacher but your own soul.”
“Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change.”
“We are Infinite, and that that is our real individuality.”
“Pray for knowledge and light; every other prayer is selfish.”
“All time is in us, we are not in time.”
“We never change, we never die, and we are never born.”
“Knowledge is nothing but finding unity in the midst of diversity.”
“Realising my own real nature is the one goal of my life.”
“He is the Essence of all this, the Soul of my soul.”
“In worshipping God we have been always worshipping our own hidden Self.”
“This is the highest: “I and my Father are one.” Realise it.”
“To know the Om is to know the secret of the universe.”
“He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books.”
“Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.”
“The man who realises, "I am He", though clad in rags, is happy.”
“I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff.”
“The goal is to manifest this Divinity within by controlling nature, external and internal.”
“If you are not God, there never was any God, and never will be.”
“This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world.”
“Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies.”
“Happiness and misery are only in the senses, they cannot touch our real Self.”
“Sense-happiness is not the goal of humanity. Wisdom (Jnâna) is the goal of all life.”
“Time is but the method of our thinking, but we are the eternally present tense.”