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"Seek the source of the ‘I am’ and you will find the Self beyond all forms."
Most of what we call reality is not reality at all. It’s a tapestry of thoughts, perceptions, memories, and projections—held together by belief and habit. We live inside a mental map and mistake it for the territory.
This is about turning inward. Not to fix the dream, but to wake up from it. Not to improve the false self, but to recognize the ever-present truth that needs no improvement.
"Abide in that Consciousness which you are—unconditioned, immutable, formless, serene and imperturbable, of unfathomable intelligence."
The search to become somebody—spiritually, emotionally, or materially—is rooted in the illusion of lack. We imagine that by adding more to ourselves, we’ll finally feel whole. But the truth is, wholeness isn’t something you gain. It’s what remains when everything false falls away.
"You did not come to this earth to become some body. You came to this earth to discover that you are nobody. No-body. You have no body. The body that appears real to you is a delusion. It appears real just as a dream appears real until you wake up."
This world is not what it seems. The mind creates layers of belief, judgment, identity, and expectation—each one a veil over the truth. You’ve been conditioned to see life through these filters, but none of it is real. You are not your thoughts, your past, your story, or your role.
You are the awareness that notices these things. The silent witness. Pure presence. When you see this clearly, the illusion begins to unravel. Life becomes simple. You stop arguing with reality, and everything softens.
This is the beginning of freedom—not by changing the world, but by seeing it rightly.
"The mind creates the abyss, the heart crosses it."
The mind seeks control as a way to secure itself. It wants to know, predict, and manage life so it can feel safe and in charge. But this sense of control is always an illusion—life remains unpredictable, fluid, and far beyond the grasp of mental management.
Surrender is not a passive resignation. It is not giving up—it is giving in. Falling into what already is. Trusting the intelligence of life more than the strategies of the mind. Letting go of fixing because nothing was ever broken.
This does not mean you reject practice or discipline, but you stop clinging to it as a means to an end. You drop the idea that awakening is somewhere in the future and rest in the fact that reality is already fully present. The seeker dissolves, and in its absence, truth reveals itself—effortlessly.
"The idea that you are the doer is the greatest obstacle to realization. It is the ego that imagines it does things. It is the Self that watches all."
The spiritual path begins with a seeker—and ends with the disappearance of the seeker.
At first, it seems like you are progressing, understanding more, moving closer to awakening. But eventually, the illusion of this “you” collapses. The one who was searching is seen to be part of the dream.
This isn’t about belief, but seeing. What dies is the illusion of separation. What remains is pure presence—unchanging, ever-present, untouched by birth or death.
As soon as there is Self-realization, the difference between a self and the others disappears.
Awakening is not “yours.” It just is.
"Those who come here with the idea of getting knowledge - even 'Spiritual Knowledge', come here as individuals, aspiring to get something; that is the real difficulty....The seeker must disappear!"
The seeker is a movement of mind—a sense of lack trying to become whole, trying to reach what it already is. For a while, it seems necessary. The seeking purifies, refines, points. But eventually, the very identity of the seeker must dissolve.
"The moment you stop seeking, you are That."
Awakening is not a destination. It’s not a finish line, a permanent state of bliss, or a badge to wear. The belief that you will one day arrive and finally remain untouched, unshaken, and fully enlightened is just another subtle identity—a refined version of the ego, cloaked in spiritual ambition.
The truth is ever-fresh. It is not something that can be possessed or stored away as an achievement. What is real cannot be held. The moment you try to grasp it, it slips into concept. Reality is always now, and now is never fixed.
Even deep insights and profound realizations—while powerful—are not the end. They are openings. Invitations. Thresholds into deeper seeing. But the moment you turn them into conclusions, the inquiry stops, and you begin to live from memory rather than immediacy.
The mind longs for closure, for certainty, for control. But truth cannot be possessed. The living reality of who you are is beyond all reference points. Stay curious. Let yourself be surprised. Let go of any sense of arrival. Even the one who is awake, the one who is “done,” must be seen through.
Remain open to being undone. Let every moment strip you of what you think you know—even what you know about yourself, about spirituality, about the Self. This humility is true wisdom.
The journey continues—not toward something, but deeper into what already is. And in that continuous falling into the unknown, you discover what never changes.
"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river."
Truth cannot be grasped by the mind. It cannot be contained in language, concepts, or beliefs. Words can point—but they cannot deliver what they point to.
It is what remains when all concepts dissolve.
You don’t awaken to a new set of beliefs. You awaken from the need for belief altogether. Silence reveals more than scriptures. Stillness speaks louder than the intellect.
What you are is before language. Before time. Before thought.
When there is no one left to understand—understanding is complete.
"In the ultimate reality, there's no thing. As we know it, as we conceive it. As long as you're able to voice it, it's false. As long as you able to think about it, it does not exist. Reality is silence, not words."
Beyond energy, beyond matter, beyond every story the mind constructs, nothing more needs to be understood. What you are cannot be known as an object. It can only be lived, here, now, in the silence beyond thought.
Reality cannot be captured by the mind, for the mind itself belongs to time. Thought moves in sequence, memory and imagination stretch in directions, and perception itself is bound to space. Yet what you truly are is untouched by these dimensions.
"Reality is not something to be understood, but something to be experienced. It is the eternal presence, beyond the concepts of time and space, which remains undisturbed by the fluctuations of the mind."
Silence is your original home. Before thought, identity, or striving—there was only this: open, effortless, whole. It cannot be attained, for it is already here. It reveals itself when all that is false falls away.
To return to silence is to return to what you are—not the self of memory or story, but the awareness that quietly watches it all. This stillness has never left. It cannot leave. Only attention was drawn to the noise.
Yet even silence is not the end. There is something prior to it—something utterly unspeakable. When the mind rests fully, even the concept of silence dissolves. What remains cannot be grasped, described, or known. And yet, it is what you are.
This is the final truth: what you are is not found in thought, not an experience, not a state. You are not the silence. You are the source of silence. That which allows all things to be.
Return to that—and go beyond.
"You can never find out for yourself by reading, or by meditating, or by discussing scripture, or by trying to prove a point, or by thinking you've got it. It is only when the noise in your head stops, only when the chattering stops, and you go beyond silence."
There is a stillness behind the mind that cannot be known through thought.
"There is a difference between awareness as reflected in consciousness and pure awareness beyond consciousness. Reflected awareness, the sense "I am aware" is the witness, while pure awareness is the essence of reality. Between awareness reflected in consciousness as the witness and pure awareness there is a gap, which the mind cannot cross."
"The final obstacle is the belief that there is something left to let go of."
True freedom begins when you stop running from the quiet. What remains when there is nothing to hold onto is not annihilation—it is peace, vast and unshakable.
From the void you get absolute reality and from absolute reality you get you.
"When you stop trying to get rid of the void, you realize it is not a threat but a doorway."
Even the position of “the witness” is still a stance of the mind. Observation implies a subject watching an object — but in truth, there are no two. To try to be “the observer” is to keep the subtle sense of separation alive.
"Do not even observe your thoughts. Do not even be the witness to your thoughts. Why? Because in reality there are no thoughts. The thoughts that you think you’re thinking, are an optical illusion. It is false imagination. Don’t you see? Everything that you’re thinking about is false. There is no thinker and there are no thoughts. So why have you been practising all these exercises all of your life? It’s like a person in the ocean going in search for water. Awaken. Be free. Be yourself."
Sadhana—discipline, meditation, prayer, inquiry, pranayama—is only needed for the one who believes themselves to be the mind and body.
Does the Self need to meditate? Does pure awareness need discipline? What requires effort is the mind, not the Self.
When identification with the mind begins to fall away, the need for sadhana falls away with it. What remains is effortless Being.
"For whom is sadhana? Again it’s for the mind and the ego. If you think it’s helping, by all means continue. But remember I said, “If you think it’s helping”. If you stop thinking you do not have to do any sadhana. I suppose sadhana is necessary as long as you believe you are the mind and the body.
Again, after all, who is doing the spiritual disciplines? Does the Self need to do that? Does consciousness need to do discipline? What needs discipline? The mind and the body. Therefore the more you are attached to the mind and body, the more you have to do sadhana."
The body acts. The mind thinks. That’s their nature—movement, change, function. But you are not the body. You are not the mind. You are the one who sees them both.
"Let the body and mind do their function. But you, remain as you are."
"Just be your Self. Everything else will take care of itself."
"When you practice Self-Inquiry and follow the thoughts back to their source, the whole secret is to realize, that there is no source to your thoughts... Brahman is not a source. Brahman is something beyond words and thoughts. Something that you alone can experience... Ponder these things deeply."
"I found myself without desires, and without knowledge. There was nothing left but Love, the state of witness was left behind; there was only Love, all pervading, all embracing, absolute. There were no crucial experiences, no soul-shattering visions. I just ceased imagining myself to be what I never was, and there was nothing to replace the unreal with. There was no need to look for replacements - The Nothingness was The Fullness of Understanding, Love, and Silent Peace."
Death, like birth, is a natural part of the cycle of life. It is not an end, but a transition—one appearance dissolving, another arising. The body returns to the elements, the form it once animated fades, but the Self—the awareness in which all appearances come and go—remains untouched, ever-present, eternal.
The ego fears death because it mistakes the body for the self and believes in its permanence. But this fear dissolves the moment you realize you are not the body, nor the thoughts about the body. You are the witnessing presence that silently watches the rising and falling of all forms—including the body and the sense of “I”.
As the Bhagavad Gita (2.23) reminds us:
“The Self cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire; water cannot wet it, nor can the wind dry it. It is eternal, all-pervading, stable, immovable, and everlasting.”
There is no death for awareness. Only the ever-shifting play of form. What you truly are does not begin and does not end. Recognizing this truth brings peace—not just at the time of death, but here and now, in the living.
When death is no longer feared, life is no longer grasped. You move through the world with openness, rooted in the unchanging, free from clinging to what will inevitably pass. In this clarity, even the dissolution of the body is seen not as a loss, but as a return.
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"There is neither birth nor death. They pertain only to the body. You are the witness of the body’s birth and death. That which is born and dies is not you."
There is nothing left to do. No one left to become. Just a quiet trust in the groundless Ground, the source of all that appears. You are not separate from this power. It does not need your control. It moves on its own, perfectly, without your interference.
"Go beyond people, places and things. Trust the substratum of all existence. Trust consciousness. Feel and believe in your heart that there's a Power that knows the way. You are that Power yourself."
There is no final understanding, no neat resolution. The mind may long for closure, but awakening only dissolves the illusion that there was ever something to resolve. What remains is not knowing in the usual sense, but resting in the unknown—utterly alive, ever new.
Self-realization is not the end of mystery, but the end of needing to control it.
"The day you stop being surprised is the day you stop being awake."
Most of the spiritual search is built on the belief that something is missing and must be attained—awakening, enlightenment, liberation. But even this search rests on the idea that you are a “someone” who is bound by time, karma, and destiny.
"Destiny refers only to name and form. Since you are neither body nor mind, destiny has no control over you. You are completely free."
Rest as you are, without trying to become anything. No striving is needed, only a simple recognition of what is already present.
"The 'I am' is the awareness before thoughts, it cannot be put into words; you have to 'just be'."
As the search falls away, life reveals itself as something far simpler than the mind could ever conceive. What remains is not a goal reached, but a return to what has always been here—quiet, open, boundless. We are no longer defined by the body or the mind, nor even by lofty notions of the divine. All identities dissolve into the vastness from which they came.
This is not a withdrawal from life, but a merging with it. A resting in a joy that is not born of time, untouched by change. Faith in this is not belief—it is the direct knowing that we are held, that we are that which holds all.
"When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification."
"I am is the original illusion. The I am doesn't exist. Reality is just behind that sense of I am or I exist. There is no I am, there is no I, there is nothing."
There is nothing left to seek, nothing left to fix. The struggle to become falls away, and what remains is simple: this moment, just as it is.
Life continues—quietly, naturally. The body breathes. The mind thinks. The world moves. But you are no longer caught in it. You are no longer trying to change it. You are simply here.
No more striving. No more grasping. Just a deep ease in Being.
"If you want liberation you have to pay the price, and the price is letting go, giving it all up, surrendering, having perfect faith that all is well. Not trying to interpret what "all is well," means. Just realizing that everything is in its right place, just the way it is. That's it. Don't interpret that. There are no mistakes."
Everything said before points only here:
"There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth."