Ignorance is the lack of the divine ability to see the supramental Truth; it is the part of our consciousness that does not perceive, as opposed to the part that sees and knows the truth.
With your mind surrendering all actions to Me, intent on Me as the highest, taking refuge in the yoga of understanding — let your consciousness always dwell in Me.
You are the woman, You are the man, You are the youth, and You are also the girl. You are the old one walking with a staff; You are born, and Your face is turned in all directions.
Your true nature is pure existence, consciousness, and bliss. The physical body is just an illusion.
Guru is the gateway to transcendental Truth-Consciousness.
In the beginning, the Ātman alone existed — one only, with nothing else whatsoever stirring. It reflected: 'Let me now create the worlds.'
With faces, heads and necks everywhere, dwelling in the heart of all beings — the blessed Lord is all-pervading, and therefore Shiva, the auspicious One, is present everywhere.
The Being and its Consciousness Force, Spirit and Nature, are not fundamentally separate. What Nature does is actually done by the Spirit.
Upon attaining that love, the devotee sees everything as full of spirit and consciousness. They understand that Krishna, his abode, and the devotee themselves are all consciousness; everything is consciousness.
God whose presence is the source of happiness has been taken as absent. How can God, the Omnipresent, be absent? This absence relates to our minds. When we forget it, it becomes absent from the mind.
"That infinite alone is below, it is above, it is behind, it is before, it is to the south, it is to the north; it alone is all this. Next, the teaching with reference to the 'I': I alone am below, I am above, I am behind, I am before, I am to the south, I am to the north; I alone am all this."
To remember God all the time while doing normal work is the real Simran. The very realisation of the existence of God is Simran in true sense.
By Simran it is meant to remember God all the time, to keep the Almighty in mind. It does not mean the repetition of God's name as such.
I am unborn, I am undecaying, beginningless and endless in myself. I am changeless, the very form of consciousness and bliss — subtler than the subtlest, and greater than the greatest.
When God Almighty is there in the mind all the time, there is no reason why feelings like jealousy should arise, why man should make discrimination against others, why he should be proud. In this way man comes closer to man. He realises that God dwells in every human being and everybody is God's own image.
The infinite can only be truly understood by transcending to a higher state of consciousness, and the knowledge of it can only be achieved by surrendering the mind to the descending messages of the all-knowing reality.
It's only by doing this that they realized Brahman as their own inner consciousness.
By daily stilling my thoughts, I could win release from the delusive conviction that my body was a mass of flesh and bones, traversing the hard soil of matter. The breath and the restless mind were like storms which lashed the ocean of light into waves of material forms.
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization. Awake in God, true saints effect changes in this dream world by a will harmoniously attuned to the Creative Cosmic Dreamer.
There is no moment for a devotee when God is absent for him. Somebody else may be absent, but God cannot be absent even for a moment. If God is absent, it is absent from the mind. And when it is absent from the mind, bad deeds begin to be done by us.