The notions of "I" and "mind" are the eager receptacles which receive sorrow and suffering.
(p. 167)
Spreading the net of worldly objects of pleasure, it is this egotism that traps living beings. Indeed, all the terrible calamities in this world are born of egotism... When I am under the influence of egotism, I am unhappy; when I am free from egotism I am happy. Egotism promotes cravings; without it they perish.
(p. 10)
It is when pure consiousness gives rise to conepts and notions within itself that it assumes an individuality (jiva). Such individuals wander in this samsara (world-appearance). In an eclipse what was unseen earlier is seen: even so it is possible to perceive through the individual's experiences the pure experiencing which is the infinite cosciousness. But this self-knowledge is not gained by study of scriptures or with the help of a guru; it can only be gained by the self for itself.
Regard your body and senses as insturments for experiencing, not as self.
(p. 474)
The self is neither this nor that; it transcends whatever is the object of experiencing here. In the unlimited and unconditioned vision ... all this is but the one self, the infinite consciousness, and there is nothing which can be regarded as the not-self. The substantaility of all substance is none other than the self or the infinite consciousness.
(p. 295)
Consciousness becomes embodied though it is truly like space, incapable of being contained.
(p. 561)
Even as in a collection of a thousand pots there is space within and outside of all the pots, undivided and individisble, even so the self exists pervading all beings in the three worlds.
(p. 400)
O Rama, you are not born when the body is born, nor do you die when it dies. To think that the space within the jar came into being when it was made and the space perishes with the jar is sheer foolishness...
(p. 294)
I salute myself which is the consciousness free of the subject-object division, which acts appropriately without division and which is the light which is reflected in all appearances. I am that consciousness in which the craving for experience has ceased. I am limitless like space; I am untouched by happiness, unhappiness and the like. Let them therefore do what they like to me, for I am non-different from them. Movement of energy in one substance is neither loss nor gain.
(p. 232)
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