Arunachala Quotes

You are already that which you seek

A certain man from Madurai asked: How to know the Power of God?          M.: You say ‘I AM’. That is it. What else can say I AM?          One’s own being is His Power. The trouble arises only when one says, “I am this or that, such and such.” Do not do it - Be yourself. That is all.

The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes.

Without first knowing the Self, to seek knowledge of God, etc., is ignorance.

Talk 570. A visitor: Nirguna upasana is said to be difficult and risky. He quoted the verse from Sri Bhagavad Gita, avyaktahi etc. (the manifest, etc.)          M.: What is manifest is considered to be unmanifest and doubt is created. Can anything be more immediate and intimate than the Self? Can anything be more plain? D.: Saguna upasana seems easier.          M.: Do what is easy for you.

Talk 505. Babu Rajendra Prasad said: I have come here with Mahatma Gandhiji’s permission and I must return to him soon. Can Sri Bhagavan give me any message for him?          M.: Adhyatma sakti is working within him and leading him on. That is enough. What more is necessary?

Kailasa is inside the arunachala hill. Paramashiva himself resides there under the banyan tree and teaches this great science to all the great rishis and administers this universe from there.

The quality of food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed.

the mind has been trained to think certain foods tasty and good.

The weaker the body the stronger the mind grows.

In deep sleep the man is devoid of possessions, including his own body. Instead of being unhappy he is quite happy.

You see the objects on forgetting your own Self.

But there are no others to be helped.

Self transcends the intellect — the latter must itself vanish to reach the Self.

Do they exist at all apart from the Self? Find it

The thought is projected out from your Self. Find out wherefrom it rises.

surrender unto the mother, so she may live eternally.

the life-current has passed through innumerable incarnations, births and deaths, pleasures and pains, etc.,

So there is no reason to mourn. Learn it, realise it and be happy.

The mind is the tiger or the deer.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc.

To whom is the illusion? Find it out.

Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is.

Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown.

Even when he acts he has no sense of being an agent. His actions are only involuntary

Find out ‘Who am I?

something to be acquired, it would not be worthy of pursuit.

You speak of one life taken away; But what about innumerable lives lost in wars?

One might be in the thick of the world and maintain serenity of mind; such a one is in solitude.

Work performed with attachment is a shackle, whereas work performed with detachment does not affect the doer.

The Self alone is the Reality; the world and the rest of it are not.

There are no others to mix with. The Self is the one and only Reality.

Where are they except in your mind?

The occult powers (siddhis) are therefore only in the mind. They are not natural

That which is not natural, but acquired, cannot be permanent, and is not worth striving for.

It is the ego which raises such difficulties, creating obstacles and then suffers from the perplexity of apparent paradoxes.

the state will not be one of sleep, but sleepless sleep.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them

ego has its accretions of thoughts which are displayed as the world, the trees, plants, etc.,

Even the thought, “I do not realise” is a hindrance. In fact, the Self alone

So, it may be said that the birth of the individual has killed the mother.

the name and form are perceived. These are the perceptions consequent on the identification of the ego with the gross body.

The ego therefore is the same in wakefulness, dream and sleep.

they are in the realm of the mind only.

Yes. What is in the world is in the body; and what is in the body is in the world also.

The power which created you has created the world. If it can take care of you, it can similarly take care of the world also.

As many of you know, I have had a constant vision, periodically, of myself going to Arunachala, the sacred mountain where Ramana Maharshi lived. And the mountain is hollow in the vision. And I go through the mountain, to the center, where there's a bright light, a thousand times brighter than the sun, but yet it's pleasing and calm, and there's no heat. And then I meet Ramana, Jesus, Ramakrishna, Nisargad­atta, Lao Tse, and others. And we smile at each other, we walk toward each other, and melt into one light, and become one. Then there's a blinding light and an explosion. And then I open my eyes. (p. 221)

You see the objects on forgetting your own Self. If you keep hold of your Self, you will not see the objective world.

The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism assumed the human body in January 1978, on the occurrence of the Vedic star “Chitra” during the Vedic month “Margazhi”, in the enlightenment ecosystem of Tiruvannamalai, South India, established by Paramasiva Himself, in the foothill of the sacred Arunachala hill. His parents (seen below) are Arunachalam and Lokanayaki.