One’s inner light alone is the means, naught else. When this inner light is kept alive, it is not affected by the darkness of inertia.
To understand oneself profoundly, one needs balance. Neither renunciation nor acquiescence.
Open yourself, create free space; release the bound one from his bonds! Like a newborn child, freed from the womb, be free to move on every path!
Internally I am a hermit, and externally I am a prince. Arms mean protection to the poor and destruction of the tyrant. Baba Nanak had not renounced the world but had renounced maya, that is, self and ego.
If you wish to be free, know you are the Self, the witness of all these, the heart of awareness. Set your body aside; sit in your own awareness. You will be at once happy, forever still, forever free.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit.
