No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the performance of one particular act is alone (considered) work? To be still is to be always engaged in work. To be silent is to be always talking.

The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable; therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.

There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.