Self or Atma !

Giving one’s self up to God means remaining constantly in the Self without giving room for the rise of any thoughts other than that of the Self.

Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them.


O good-hearted aspirants who want perfection, instead of trying to avoid poverty – which is a deficiency created by the mind – by acquiring wealth,

it is better to acquire shanti, mental peace.


The Self cannot be known through study of the scriptures, nor through the intellect, nor through hearing learned discourses.

The Self can be attained only by those whom the Self chooses. Verily unto them does the Self reveal himself.


Pleasure and pain are aspects of the mind only.

Our essential nature is happiness.

But we have forgotten the Self and imagine that the body or the mind is the Self.

It is that wrong identity that gives rise to misery.


Everyone is the Self by his own experience.

Still he is not aware, he identifies the Self with the body and feels miserable.

This is the greatest of all mysteries.

One is the Self. Why not abide as the Self and be done with miseries?

Sri Ramana Maharishi