We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.