The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
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 at once be happy, forever still, forever free.
Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the real you sleeping in your heart.
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.
You should discover your own reality and not thwart yourself. For you have the self as your only friend, or as your only enemy.
Fight with yourself, why fight with external foes? He, who overcomes self will obtain happiness.
To become conscious we must become Self-aware in the awareness of the observer Self-observing.
