Thou art That. Thou art the Reality.
"You are God, and whatever else you may think is wrong."
Advaita will be the future religion of thinking humanity.
Brahman alone is true, all else is false and I am Brahman.
Each is but the ripple on the waters. Know, Oh man! thou art the sea!
All idea of separation is bondage, that of non-differentiation is Mukti.
"In the beginning, existence only, One without a second", says the Vedas.
Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.
he found there was only one bird — he was the upper bird all the time and had but just found it out.
Rouse and agitate the country with the lion-roar of Advaitavâda (monism). Then I shall know you to be a Vedantist.
The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.
Advaitism is the last word of religion and thought and the only position from which one can look upon all religions and sects with love.
It has been said that adversity is the touchstone of true knowledge, and this may be said a hundred times with regard to the truth: 'Thou art That.'
I am the Advaitist; our goal is *knowledge* — no feelings, no love, as all that belongs to matter and superstition and bondage. I am only existence and knowledge.
When you serve a Jiva with the idea that he is a Jiva, it is Dayâ (compassion) and not Prema (love); but when you serve him with the idea that he is the Self, that is Prema.
The real nature of the Jiva is Brahman. When the veil of name and form vanishes through meditation etc., then that idea is simply realised. This is the substance of pure Advaita.
Religion is that which does not depend upon books or teachers or prophets or saviours, and that which does not make us dependent in this or in any other lives upon others. In this sense Advaitism of the Upanishads is the only religion.
Here attention was to be paid only to the subjective elements of religion, such as private meditation, individual and collective study of the scriptures, and the teaching and culture of the highest spiritual monism, free from any dualistic weakness or dependence.
I am determined to get rid of all sentimentalism, and emotionalism, and hang me if you ever find me emotional. I am the Advaitist; our goal is *knowledge* — no feelings, no love, as all that belongs to matter and superstition and bondage. I am only existence and knowledge.
The dry, abstract Advaita must become living — poetic — in everyday life; out of hopelessly intricate mythology must come concrete moral forms; and out of bewildering Yogi-ism must come the most scientific and practical psychology — and all this must be put in a form so that a child may grasp it.
Ramanuja's theory is that the bound soul or Jiva has its perfections involved, entered, into itself. When this perfection again evolves, it becomes free. The Advaitin declares both these to take place only in show; there was neither involution nor evolution. Both processes were Maya, or apparent only.
