1. “As a man in the arms of his beloved is not aware of what is without and what is within, so a person in union with the Self is not aware of what is without and what is within, for in that unitive state all desires find their perfect fulfillment. There is no other desire that needs to be fulfilled, and one goes beyond sorrow.”
2. “As all the spokes are held together in the hub of a wheel, just so in this Soul all things, all gods, all worlds, all breathing things, all selves are held together.”
3. “As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So fromThe Eternal arises everything here.”
4. “As far, verily, as this world-space extends, so far extends the space within the heart. Within it are contained both heaven and earth, both fire and wind, both sun and moon, lightning and the stars, both what one possesses here and what one does not possess; everything here is contained within it. . . That is the Soul, free from evil, free from age, free from death, free from sorrow, free from hunger, free from thirst, whose desire is the Real, whose conception is the Real.”
5. ”As long as there is duality, one sees the other, one hears the other, one smells the other, one speaks to the other, one thinks of the other, one knows the other; but when for the illumined soul the all is dissolved in the Self, who is there to be seen by whom, who is there to be smelt by whom, who is there to be heard by whom, who is there to be spoken to by whom, who is there to be thought of by whom, who is there to be known by whom? Ah, Maitreyi, my beloved, the Intelligence which reveals all by what shall it be revealed? By whom shall the Knower be known? The Self is described as *not this, not that.* It is incomprehensible, for it cannot be comprehended; undecaying for it never decays; unattached, for it never attaches; unbound, for it is never bound. By whom, O my beloved, shall the Knower be known?”
6. “As the rivers flowing east and west
Merge in the sea and become one with it,
Forgetting they were ever separate rivers,
So do all creatures lose their separateness
When they merge at last into pure Being.”
7. “As the same fire assumes different shapes
When it consumes objects differing in shape,
So does the one Self take the shape
Of every creature in whom he is present.
As the same air assumes different shapes
When it enters objects differing in shape,
So does the one Self take the shape
Of every creature in whom he is present.”
8. “Even as a great fish swims along the two banks of a river, first along the eastern bank and then the western bank, in the same way the Spirit of man moves along beside his two dwellings: this waking world and the land of sleep and dreams.”
9. “He, knowing all, becomes the All.”
10. “He who breathes in with your breathing is the Soul of yours which is in all things.”
11. “He who consists of mind, whose body is life-breath, whose form is light, whose conception is truth, whose soul is space, containing all works, containing all desires, containing all odors, containing all tastes, encompassing this whole world . . . this Soul of mine within the heart is smaller than a grain of rice, or a barley-corn, or a mustard-seed, or a grain of millet, or the kernel of a grain of millet. This Soul of mine is greater than the earth, greater than the atmosphere, greater than the sky, greater than these worlds.”
12. “He who is in the fire, and he who is here in the heart, and he who is yonder in the sun - he is one.”
13. “In dreams the mind beholds its own immensity. What has been seen is seen again, and what has been heard is heard again. What has been felt in different laces or faraway regions returns to the mind again. Seenand unseen, heard and unheard, felt and not felt, the mind sees all,since the mind is all.”
14. “It is not coarse, not fine, not short, not long, . . without shadow, without darkness, without air and without space, intangible, odorless, tasteless, without eye, without ear, without voice, without mind, without energy, without breath, without mouth . . unaging, undying, without fear, immortal, without stain, without measure, without inside and without inside.”
15. "Know one, know all."
16. “Know thou the self (spirit) as riding in a chariot,
The body as the chariot.
Know thou the intellect as the chariot-driver,
And the mind as the reins.
The senses, they say, are the horses;
The objects of sense, what they range over.
The self combined with senses and mind
Wise men call "the enjoyer."
17. ”Lead me from the unreal to the real
Lead me from darkness to light
Lead me from death to immortality.”
18. “Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.”
19. “Not by sight is It grasped, not even by speech,
Not by any other sense-organs, austerity, or work . .
That subtile Soul is to be known by thought.”
20. “Rivers in the east flow eastward,
Rivers in the west flow westward,
And they all enter the sea.
From sea to sea they pass,
The clouds lifting them to the sky
As vapor and sending them down as rain.
And as these rivers,
When they are united with the sea,
Do not know whether they
Are this river or that,
Likewise all creatures do not know
From whence they came.”
21. "Self-luminous, fixed, yet known as moving in the secret cavity of the heart. That is the great support. Herein abides all that moves and breathes and winks."
22. ”The light which shines higher than this heaven . . verily, that is the same as the light which is here within a person.”
23. ”The light of the Spirit is invisible, concealed in all beings. It is seen by the seers of the subtle, when their vision is keen and clear.”
24. "The Spirit, without moving, is swifter than the mind; the senses cannot reach him: He is ever beyond them. Standing still, he overtakes those who run. To the ocean of his being, the spirit of life leads the streams of action."
25. “The universe is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
The gods are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Creatures are loved not for their own sake, but because the Self lives in it.
Everything is loved not for its own sake, but because the Self lives in it.”
26. “This universe is a trinity and this is made of name, form, and action. The source of all actions is the body, for it is by the body that all actions are done. The body is behind all actions, even as the Eternal is behind the body.”
27. “Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures know no fear.
Those who see all creatures in themselves
And themselves in all creatures knows no grief.
How can the multiplicity of life
Delude the one who sees its unity?”
28. “Thou art the dark-blue bird and the green parrot with red eyes,
Thou hast the lightning as thy child. Thou art the seasons and the seas.
Having no beginning, thou dost abide with all-pervadingness,
Wherefrom all beings are born.”
29. “Wherefrom do all these worlds come? They come from space. All beings arise from space, and into space they return: space is indeed their beginning, and space is their final end.”
30. "Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy."
31. “Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings, loses all fear.”
32. “You are what your deep driving desire is;
As your deep driving desire is, so is your will;
As your will is so is your deed;
As your deed is so is your destiny.”
