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“Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.”
“It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.”
“Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling i...”
“Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.”
“For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.”
“Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, an...”
“The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of the Self through knowledge, there is release, which is of the nature of Brahman: this is the teac...”
“No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.”
“The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”
“No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.”
“No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.”
“There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.”