All that I am trying to do is to help you to discern for yourself that there is no salvation outside of yourself, that no Master, no society, can save you; that no church, no ceremony, no prayer can break down your self-created limitations and restrictions; that only through your own strenuous awareness is there [...]
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Sense pleasures or the bliss of peace?
Weigh in the balance of your wisdom, the sense-pleasures on one side and the bliss of peace on the other. Whatever you determine to be the truth, seek that. — Yoga Vasishta (tr. by Sw. Venkatesananda, p. 146) Questioner: How would you cope with an incurable disease? Krishnamurti: Most of us do not understand ourselves, [...]
Be free from all dualities
Narendra — All is one, isn’t it? Sri Ramakrishna — No, beyond one and two. (source) When the mind perceives duality then there is both duality and its counterpart, which is unity. When the mind drops the perception of duality there is neither duality nor unity. When one is firmly established in the oneness of [...]
Wisdom from the Yoga Vasishtha: Self-effort
In this world, whatever is gained is gained by only by self-effort; where failure is encountered, it is seen that there has been slackness in the effort. This is obvious, but what is called fate is fictitious, and is not seen. … Self-effort is of two categories: that of past births and that of this [...]
