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“A fish cannot drown in water,
A bird does not fall in air.
In the fire of creation,
God doesn't vanish:
The fire brightens.
Each creature God made
must live in its own true nature;
How could I resist my nature,
That lives for oneness with God?”
― Mechthild of Magdeburg, Meditations from Mechthild of Magdeburg

“THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE ATMAN, THE SOUL.


The first meaning is: in this world, only consciousness is yours. The word atman means: that which is your own. Regardless of how much the rest may appear to you as your own, it is alien. All of that which you otherwise claim as yours â€� friends, loved ones, family, wealth, fame, high position, a great empire â€� it is all a deception. Because one day death will snatch it all away from you. So death is the criterion for determining who is your own and who is the stranger. That which death can separate you from, know that it didn’t belong to you, and that which it can’t, was indeed your own.”
― Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“In reality there is no such thing as someone being able to “stay permanentlyâ€� in the Self. No one has ever done it: the Buddha couldn’t do it, neither could Christ do it. Rather, the Self has been recognized as what we are, and it is effortlessly and timelessly perfect, always. In truth, there is no actual “in and outâ€� of the Self, no fluctuation—for these are seen to arise within the immutable awareness.”
― Mooji, Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space

“But what a path it has been! I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. But it was right that it should be so; my eyes and heart acclaim it. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I had to become a fool again in order to find Atman in myself. I had to sin in order to live again. Whither will my path lead me? This path is stupid, it goes in spirals, perhaps in circles, but whichever way it goes, I will follow it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“...It was the self from which I sought freedom and that I wanted to overcome... I could only deceive it, flee from it... Truly, no thing in this world has so occupied my thoughts as my own self, the riddle of the fact that I am alive, I am distinct and separate from all others, I am Siddhartha. And there is no thing in this world I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“The new definition of God - It has the root in Vedanta. The concentrated form of the whole human race is God. Where does it concentrate? In Vedanta it has the explanation. Where is the universe? It is within the body of every human being. It is the realization of Vedanta. It cannot be proved outside. First comes visualization of Atma or soul, then visualization of universe within Atma. Where Atma is visualized? This occurs within this body. Then it comes that the universe is within this body and again it is outside.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“The mind is withdrawn from the Universe and kept confined in the body. Then follows realizations of God’s sportive forms in full measure, of course, by God’s grace, then seeing of the God (Atma) in the seventh plane; it is succeeded by ‘Supreme Knowledgeâ€�; again it turns into ‘Knowledge of thouâ€�, subsequently follows Descent as in an incarnation of God or Avatar.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Atman or Soul is visible in the ‘Samadhiâ€� stage. The Soul is percolated. It means ‘Kundaliniâ€� or Life power is percolated. After percolation from the whole body, it is accumulated in the cerebrum or the seventh plane of the body and is seen. If any cell of the brain is defective, the man will not thrive at this stage. The life power will melt. And if it is flawless, the life power will descend from the cerebrum, and just at this stage, Atman is seen.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond

“Man is the expression
of God, and God is the reality of man.
Real man and God are inseparable.
"This Atman is not to be realized by the intellect, nor by words, nor by hearing from many sources; but by him by whom this Atman is beloved, by him alone is the Atman realized."
The thing necessary for us is to feel intense love in our hearts for this Atman, or God; otherwise He is not attainable. There is no other way that man can reach unto God, except through love â€� love always unites. This love for God comes unto those blessed beings who are pure in heart, from whom all attachment for unreal things, all selfish desires have vanished. This purity of heart and love for God are the sum and substance of all religious teachings”
― Swami Paramananda, Vedanta In Practice

“The Universe is within Atma. It is so seen in the seventh plane. This is the first stage of the man who attains special Knowledge. This is solving the mystery in relation with Man, God and the Universe.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“Shabda, Transcendent Word, or logos ( λόγος ) in Greek, is the exclusive means by which transcendent truths are revealed. This is the case because shabda, being of the nature of the spiritual, corresponds in essence with the spiritual nature of transcendent truths. It is only via consciousness
that we can know consciousness. It is only via spirit that we can know Spirit. It is only via atman (our individual soul) that we can know Brahman (God). It is only through shabda that we can know transcendent truths. Shabda represents the essential nature of spiritual realities as they exist in
the form of trans-empirical vibrational frequency (thus Word, logos, etc.). Truth, being an eternal and living reality, can be accessed by human beings who have purified themselves, and who have absorbed their subjective consciousness in the Absolute supreme subjective consciousness (God), to such a degree that qualitative separation between themselves and God has ceased to exist. At this point, the medium (pramana) between knower (pramatr) and object of knowledge (prameya),
which in this case is God, has evaporated. Thus, shabda is the only means of knowing in which we transcend even the use of a medium.

In such a state of oneness with the Divine, the sage now has the ability both to know the transcendent truth, as well as to reveal the transcendent truth of the Divine for all the world to know. Thus, Veda, or perfect scriptural authority comes into being as a result of such direct, non-mediated insight into the nature of the Divine on the part of the sage. Word, as the eternal transcendent reality revealed to sages in deep states of meditative absorption (samadhi), becomes "the Word" as written scripture when these very same sages then write their realizations down.”
― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way

“Having the Supreme Godhead as our source, our souls participate in the positive spiritual qualities of the Absolute. Both our souls (Atman) and God (Brahman) share in the inherent spiritual qualities of necessary being and existence, eternality, wisdom, beauty and goodness.”
― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way

“We do not have a soul. Rather we are soul. Our soul is our innermost identity and synonymous with the most intimate level of "I" that we know to be the core of our personhood. Both God (Brahman) and soul (Atman) are of the nature of pure sentient consciousness. Thus, being spiritual, they both transcend matter itself, as well as all the limitations necessarily associated with matter.”
― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way

“God, or Brahman, is the source of all. In the state of illusion, the soul (Atman) sees itself as an exploiter of matter (Jagat), and lives in an unnatural state of illusory separation from God. Thus, the soul psychologically finds himself in a unnatural, unnecessary and discomforting state of self-imposed conflict (virodha) and adversity with God, with other living beings, and with the material world around him. Such an unnatural state is the source of all our suffering. However, in the most ideal of circumstances, God, soul and materiality all exist in harmonious balance, drawn to one another through a metaphysical bond of love, and a unity of transcendent purpose - Atman and Jagat serving Brahman, and Brahman giving Atman and Jagat their sense of purpose and operating as the ontological source and sustaining principle of their very being [...] When we live in such a state of natural balance, we are then living in accordance with Dharma. We are then living our lives naturally and in perfection. (p. 115)”
― Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya, Sanatana Dharma: The Eternal Natural Way

“He who holds the Universe in Himâ€�. It is Atman. The Universe is within Atman. It is so seen in the seventh plane. This is the first stage of the man who attains Special Knowledge. This is to solve the mystery, in relation to Man, God, and the Universe.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond

“What is God? He is within this body as ‘Soulâ€� or ‘Atman. He shows Himself in each step of the body. This universe is within the ‘Atmanâ€� or ‘Soulâ€�. Again the Soul is within the body. That means this universe is within us. As soon as we are born, we reflect this universe outside and live in it.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“One who find self, attains peace.”
― Vinaya

“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the whole world thee, with trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“The oldest Vedantic school, Advaita [‘Not two’], represents an extreme and purist position in arguing that Brahman alone is real. The self and the world are within Brahman, with any apparent difference arising from illusion [maya] and ignorance [avidya]. It is as with a rope, which seems to be a snake, or a seashell, which seems to be of silver. This world is like the foam on the sea, or a peacock’s egg, created simply for play [lila]. Since Brahman is all, Brahman is without attributes. When the mind, which is given to maya, tries to conceive of Brahman, it sees Ishvara in one of his many forms. If certain Upanishadic statements appear to be theistic, it is because their author (nominally, Brahman) is catering to his audience. Only in deep sleep, when we are no longer dreaming, might we experience something of the formlessness of Brahman. We are then pure, disengaged consciousness, like the sun after it has set. This is the experience of disembodied Atma, of death, of home.”
― Neel Burton, Indian Mythology and Philosophy: The Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Kama Sutraâ€� And How They Fit Together

“The whole universe is within this human body

19th April, 1958.

Where is this Universe? This is also within you. At the time of birth, the child reflects the world and lives within it. This reflection is spontaneous and for this reason, the man cannot realize it.

In Vedas it is mentioned like this: The spider ejects the net from saliva from its body and lives within it. Though it is a one-sided comparison. Through realization, it can be realized. Beforehand I used to think that such a big universe is within me! But actually, it is so. After visualization of ‘Atmanâ€� or ‘Soulâ€�, when the seer gets the experience of visualizing the universe within ‘Atmanâ€�, then only it can be understood. Then what happens? This universe is transformed into seed form, the seed is merged into a dream and ultimately the dream vanishes.”
― Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond

“All three actions are creation, existence, and dissolution within this human body. A mother says, ‘My child is 6 days oldâ€�. What does it mean? He approaches 6 days towards death. Everything is predestined for a man’s life cycle.
A man is born � Creation; lives � Existence; and approaches towards death � Dissolution. These three things have been running within a man since his birth to death.
The esoteric meaning is as follows: Visualization of ‘Atmanâ€� or ‘Soulâ€� within the body—Creation; seeing the universe within the ‘Atman’—Existence; to dissolve in infinity—Dissolution.”
― Sri Jibankrishma or Diamond