The short-cut to Self-realisation is this way: the name of God is the seed; love is the water by which the crop grows; discipline is the fence which protects the growing crop; the field in which the crop is grown is the spiritual heart; the crop, when it comes to harvest, is Bliss. (CWBSSB, pp. 32-33)

You realise your own Self. You are you, not your wife. You are You. (CWBSSB, p. 93)

The individual must install himself in a chariot with the wheels of detachment (Tyaga) and Truth (Satya); the Lord will then accept the position of Charioteer; He will hold the reins (mind) and direct the horses (the senses) straight and safe over the road (the path to salvation through Self-realisation). (SSS Vol.8, p. 96)

The search for Sita (in the Ramayana) is symbolic of the secret of Self-realisation in the field of experience. Aim high, resolve on the supermost adventure - everything will be set right to lead you on to the goal. (SSS Vol.7, p. 121)

You must so act that the heart of the Guru melts at your devotion. Only that will cleanse the mind of evil and vice. If you develop devotion and steady faith, you will achieve the glory of Self-realisation. (S.S.S. Vol. IV - p. 96)

Self realisation is possible only through knowing your own real nature. (ICS , p. 25)

Atma is also known as ‘Awareness’. It is this awareness that is responsible for the ‘I’ consciousness in all beings, which is called ‘Aham’. When this Aham identifies itself with the body, it becomes Ahamkara. This is the false ‘I’ and not the real ‘I’. What hides the Atma always, is the mind. The clouds, which are formed due to the Sun’s heat, hide the Sun itself. Likewise the mind, which is the offspring of the Atma hides the Atma itself. As long as the mind is there, man cannot hope to understand anything about the Self, not to speak of realising and experiencing the bliss of the Self. That state in which one is established in the Self at all times and under all circumstances is called ‘Sakshatkara’, Self realisation. (ICS , p. 115)

One must make a distinction between the mind that is the ego, and the real self that is Consciousness. The latter helps us to cross the frontiers of the ego-mind and become aware of oneself as the witness of truth. Normally the scientist of the mind looks outside to what can be perceived by the senses existing in the world of the mind to ask: What is this? The scientist of consciousness, on the other hand, always looks inside so that which is beyond the senses or the grasp of the mind to ask: What is that? One has, therefore, to rise beyond the mind to Consciousness to achieve self-realization. To gain the infinite, universal atma, the embodied self must break out of the puny, finite little prison of individuality. Desire belongs to the senses, the brain, the mind; once you become free of it, you realize the self, atma. Consciousness, enlightenment, and become one with the cosmic power. Self-realization is God-realization. Thus man reaches God.

The Upanishad taught the difference between pleasure and pain. If you shed your ego and experience Divinity you will get rid of your pain and enjoy lasting bliss. The Upanishad teach through stories the subtlest truths. You should understand their inner significance and taste the nectarine sweetness. This is possible only when there is Bhava-Shuddhi (inner purity). Purity of heart leads to Siddhi, Self-realisation. (SSS Vol.26, p. 362)

A knowledge of the individual is verily a knowledge of the self. That is self-realisation. What is self? Self is to know one’s own self. (DTB Vol.5, p. 11)