The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
How to figure out the recipe of your life? Your body knows when it needs food. And it asks for it. But if your devouring self keeps asking for more food, pounds of unnecessary problems are added to your life.
The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.
The personal self by its very nature is constantly pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain. The ending of this pattern is the ending of the self. The ending of the self with its desires and fears enables you to return to your real nature, the source of all happiness and peace.
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself and there isn't one.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
The secret of immortality is to be found in the purification of the heart, in meditation, in realization of the identity of the Self within and Brahman without. For immortality is union with God.