Atman

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Sitting in a solitary place, freeing the mind from desires and controlling the senses, meditate with unswerving attention on the Atman which is One without-a-second.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

Atman is an ever-present Reality. Yet, because of ignorance it is not realised. On the destruction of ignorance Atman is realised.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

A lighted-lamp does not need another lamp to illumine its light. So too, Atman which is Knowledge itself needs no other knowledge to know it.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

He who renouncing all activities, who is free of all the limitations of time, space and direction, worships his own Atman which is present everywhere, which is the destroyer of heat and cold, which is Bliss-Eternal and stainless, becomes All-knowing and All-pervading and attains thereafter Immortality.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

Loss and gain, honour and dishonour and praise and blame are things of no
importance to the man who has found the joy of selfless activity and the peace
of the Atman.

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— Swami Ramdas

Source: Sayings of Papa Ramdas, Anandashram

Realise that you are the blissful Atman, and, then, for you, there is motion
in external work but rest in the inner calmness of the spirit.

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— Swami Ramdas

Source: Sayings of Papa Ramdas, Anandashram

Attachment, desire, pleasure, pain, etc., are perceived to exist so long as Buddhi or mind functions. They are not perceived in deep sleep when the mind ceases to exist. Therefore they belong to the mind alone and not to the Atman.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha

The Atman, the Sun of Knowledge that rises in the sky of the heart, destroys the darkness of the ignorance, pervades and sustains all and shines and makes everything to shine.

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— Adi Shankara

Source: Atma Bodha