Silence

The root cause of a person's suffering is their pride. Even if someone makes a sacrifice, they can still get caught up in their own pride. What is the point of such a sacrifice? It is pride, or ego, that should be sacrificed. That is where true happiness and bliss are found.

The mind does not become tranquil until it is connected to the ever-peaceful Supreme Being.

The eye does not reach there, nor does speech, nor the mind. We do not know, we do not understand how one would teach this.

Even if you are the greatest sinner, you can still overcome sin through wisdom.

A man endowed with sattva is quiet and peaceful.

Among the means of restraint I am the rod of discipline; among those who seek victory I am statecraft; among secrets I am silence; among the wise I am wisdom.

That moves, yet does not move; it is far away, yet it is near; it dwells within the heart of all, and yet it is also outside everything.

Sacrifice, vows, austerity, charity, repetition of mantras, and pilgrimage — those who perform these without understanding the truth of the Guru wander about in ignorance.

He becomes emancipated who neither accumulates merit nor demerit, casts off past karma, destroys his body's elements to attain a tranquil soul, and transcends all dualities.

It is to be restrained just so long, until that which is in the heart comes to dissolution. This is knowledge and this is meditation; all else is but extension of words.

And what people call the sacrificial session (sattrayana) is really brahmacharya, for only through brahmacharya does one find the protection (trana) of the real Self. And what people call the vow of silence (mauna) is really brahmacharya, for only after finding the Self through brahmacharya does one truly reflect.

O fair-faced one, those liberated at the level of piṇḍa are free, those freed at pada are free, those freed at rūpa are free — but those who are liberated beyond rūpa are truly free, without a doubt.

Just as the image of a crystal is seen in a mirror, so in the Self shines the bliss of pure consciousness — know this as 'That I am.'

She said: Revered Brahmanas, you may well count it a great thing if you can get off from him with mere salutation. Never will any of you beat him in describing Brahman. Thereupon the daughter of Vachaknu held her peace.

In the same way he said to the pratihartri: 'Pratihartri, if you take up the pratihara without knowing the deity that belongs to the pratihara, your head will fall off.' They stopped and sat down in silence.

O thou whose eyes are shadowy with kohl, / O thou whose slender figure works my Dole, / Whose locks with musk are laden, art thou dumb, / That thus with Silence thou shouldst rend my Soul?

Dissolving the Self into the supreme Self—as the space within a pot is dissolved into the great space—as the undivided whole, O sage, remain ever silent.

But when, after the morning litany has begun, the brahma priest does not speak before the concluding verse, the priests perfect both tracks, and neither is lost.

Just as travelers stop at various places, the senses become still with the dawning of wisdom.

May Lord Rama rule over this city, assisted by his Guru, councillors and brothers. And may we die in Ayodhya with Lord Rama as still our king.