No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the body; not the personality, nor the emotions, for these also will vanish with death.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.