"It is like this. Take a bird that is tied with a string. It will fly off in every direction and, when it cannot find a resting place anywhere else, it will alight back upon the very thing to which it is tied."

"The finest essence here—"

"So, those here in this world who depart without having discovered the self and these real desires"

"I was particularly affected by the Chandogya Upanishad, which comes from the Sama Veda or the Veda of song. The book itself would seem to sing or to chant to me. I would merely look at the book and start to hear the Vedic students of old raising their voices to the Divine. Something of the Vedic shakti came through it along with a connection to the ancient seers, their families and their practices."

"Knowledge is the eye of all that,"

"It is with this self consisting of knowledge that he went up from this world"

"In the beginning this world was the self (atman), one alone, and there was no other being at all that blinked an eye."

"Brahman is OṂ. This whole world is OṂ."

"After he had perceived this, he went up to his father, Varuṇa, once again and said: "Sir, teach me brahman.""

"It is far different from what's known."

"Which one cannot grasp with one's mind,"

"When one has known God, all the fetters fall off;"

"Like oil in sesame seeds and butter in curds,"

"When, by means of the true nature of the self, which resembles a lamp,"

"This God does pervade all quarters."

"This [Lifebreath] burns as fire—this as sun;"

"The lifebreath here arises from the self (atman)."

"The origin, entrance, position,"

"This whole world is to be dwelt in by the Lord,"

"Although not moving, the one is swifter than the mind;"

"Knowledge and ignorance—"

"See how it was with those who came before, How it will be with those who are living. Like corn mortals ripen and fall; like corn They come up again."

"Know the Self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect (buddhi) the charioteer, and the mind the reins. The senses they call the horses, the objects of the senses their roads. When he (the Highest Self) is in union with the body, the senses, and the mind, then wise people call him the Enjoyer."

"As large as this ether (all space) is, so large is that ether within the heart. Both heaven and earth are contained within it, both fire and air, both sun and moon, both lightning and stars; and whatever there is of him (the Self) here in the world, and whatever is not (i. e. whatever has been or will be), all that is contained within it."

"Lead us from the unreal to the real. Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality."

"This earth is the honey (madhu, the effect) of all beings, and all beings are the honey (madhu, the effect) of this earth."

"काममय एवायं पुरुष इति स यथाकामो भवति तत्क्रतुर्भवति यत्क्रतुर्भवति तत्कर्म कुरुते यत्कर्म कुरुते तदभिसम्पद्यते"

"When the speech of this dead person enters into the fire, breath into the air, the eye into the sun, the mind into the moon, the hearing into space, into the earth the body, into the ether the self, into the shrubs the hairs of the body, into the trees the hairs of the head, when the blood and the seed are deposited in the water, where is then that person?"

"The gods love what is mysterious, and dislike what is evident."

"Know that all this, whatever moves in this moving world, is enveloped by God. Therefore find your enjoyment in renunciation; do not covet what belongs to others."

"That which is not uttered by speech, that by which the word is expressed, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this (non-Brahman) which is being worshipped. That which one does not think with the mind, that by which, they say, the mind is thought, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this (non-Brahman) which is being worshipped. That which man does not see with the eye, that by which man sees the activities of the eye, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this (non-Brahman) which is being worshipped. That which man does not hear with the ear, that by which man hears the ear’s hearing, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this (non-Brahman) which is being worshipped. That which man does not smell with the organ of smell, that by which the organ of smell is attracted towards its objects, know That alone to be Brahman, and not this (non-Brahman) which is being worshipped."

"Thinking evolves the objective. All the three worlds exist through thinking. The Kosmos melts away on its dissolution. This thinking should carefully be diagnosed."