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

That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness - the Self.

There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.

Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union and devotion; it is heaven, wealth, peace and truth; it is grace; it is the state of divine silence; it is the deathless death; it is jnana, renunciation, final liberation and bliss.

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.

See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.