It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Till you reach the state of jnana and thus wake out of maya you must do social service by relieving suffering whenever you see it. But even then you must do it without ahankara, i.e., without the sense of 'I am the doer', but with the feeling 'I am the Lord's tool'.

The "I" thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the "I" thought has to be inquired into.

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.