Mere theoretical knowledge of music does not make you a musician. So also theoretical knowledge of the Self does not make you a realized soul. -Swami Sivananda

Harm because one was harmed, harm because someone deserves it is rajasic ego redefined. Transcend the illusion & arise to our true state which is the Eternal Atman & Divine Presence within.

Pride of renunciation is more harmful than pride of wealth. -Swami Sivananda

The soul is neither born, nor does it ever die; nor having once existed, does it ever cease to be. The soul is without birth, eternal, immortal, and ageless. It is not destroyed when the body is destroyed.-Bhagavad Gita

The ego-less state is available and always there. It is the Atman, Presence or Witness. The spiritual practice becomes learning to quiet the mind so we can feel this eternal peace continuously.

When we realize the Atman, none are more special than another. Perceived special persons are designed to bring to our awareness the defects of the dualistic psyche. This is karma. If all is Atman, it is One & perfect as it is. The mind's deception is the Atman's tool to bring us back to Itself.

Who Am I? When the truth emerges as Ananda (Bliss Absolute), all the reaching for someone or something outside of Self begins to die. The seeking for fulfilment through means of enjoyment becomes unnecessary. The Ultimate Bliss has been awakened.

Your mind perceives and continues to perceive the things in that very form which it imagines it to be in full faith with. Pierce through the steel-armor of biased thoughts, and try to see the divinity in every object.-Swami Sivananda

The problem is, we don't want to look inside. We continue to search and demand difference outside where true happiness and peace can never be found.

Find a problem in the world that exists without the perceiver being attached in one of the followings ways: expectation of others or an outcome. Since problems can only ever be traced back to attachment, it is the perceiver who must fix his vision so he can see the world as it is. #selfrealization

"The world is an illusion" refers to the projections and perceptions of the mind. All is Atman or Brahman. See all as God and serve all as Thyself. This leads to self-realization and is enlightenment.

The world is an illusion,
Brahman alone is real,
Brahman is the world.

~ Shankara

The man who embraces the world as real, like the man embracing a woman in his dream, ultimately awakens to find nothing there but himself. ~ Ramesh Balsekar

When the mind is serene without any want, without any motive, without any craving or desire or thought, without any compulsion, without hope, then the supreme Atman shines.-Swami Sivananda

Our real nature: Ajo-Nityah Sasvatoyam Purano: Unborn, Eternal, Permanent is the Ancient One.

You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.”― Nisargadatta Maharaj

There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate.- Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering & delaying your Self Realization... the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling." -Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”― Ramana Maharshi

Self-less service is not for other people, it is for you...for self-transformation.-Swami Sita