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- Abhyasa consists in withdrawal within the Self every time you are disturbed by thought
- All that is required is to be still
- Are there degrees of illusion
- Awareness is the one necessary factor states without awareness do not lead to Moksha
- Bhagavan asked who is the questioner and what is the Self
- How shall I overcome my passions
- How to know the Real I as distinct from the false I
- If the mind is turned inwards God manifests as inner consciousness
- Is there no way of escape from the miseries of this world
- It was pointed out that Sri Bhagavan often said the whole Vedanta
- Keep the mind steady by gently turning it inward
- Meditation depends on the strength of mind
- Meditation is possible only if the ego is kept up
- My propositions serve as elucidations in darkness
- Non-action is unceasing activity
- On the death of King George V devotees asked Bhagavan
- One may find hatha yoga suitable and another man nama japa
- Overcome passions by finding their source
- Realisation now consists in getting rid of this false idea that one is not realised
- That which rises as I is the mind it is only the mind
- The Self is not born and does not die
- The Self is realized by a certain mental activity
- The ego-consciousness is like the root of a plant
- The highest form of grace is silence
- The idea of one Self being aware of another Self is absurd
- The mind is a bundle of thoughts arising from the I-thought
- The sense of body is a thought the thought is of the mind
- The sleep state is free from thoughts and the Self shines
- The world is mental and it will shine as reality only in the Light of Self
- There is no reaching the Self it is not outside you
- There is no use removing doubts one by one
- To perform one’s duty carefully is the greatest service to God
- Turn the mind inward and find out who the seer is
- Until the mind rests in God it must continue to wander
- We capitulate to sleep but the Self is still there
- What is concentration but the absolute consciousness of reality
- What is the ego and how is it related to the Self
- Where is the mind and where are the thoughts arising from it
- Who can deny the Self of anyone
- Why is Atma vichara necessary
- annihilation of the mind - knowledge and one-pointedness