![If I ask you what is the taste of your mouth all you can do is to say: it is neither sweet nor bitter, nor sour nor astringent; it is what remains when all these tastes are not. Similarly, when all distinctions and reactions are no more, what remains is reality, simple and solid. [Nisargadatta Maharaj]](https://i0.wp.com/vedanta.manishverma.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/Container-Not-Content-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.png?ssl=1 "Nisargadatta Maharaj Quote")
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Category Archives: Self
Body, Mind & Me
![I appear to hear and see and talk and act, but to me it just happens, as to you digestion or perspiration happens. The body-mind machine looks after it, but leaves me out of it. Just as you do not need to worry about growing hair, so I need not worry about words and actions. They just happen and leave me unconcerned...... [Nisargadatta Maharaj]](https://i0.wp.com/vedanta.manishverma.site/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/09/Body-Mind-Me-Nisargadatta-Maharaj.png?ssl=1 "Body, Mind and Me")
Search Inside Not Outside – Kabir
![Like the pupil in the eyes, likewise Lord resides within. Ignorant people don't know this, they go in search outside. [Kabir]](https://i0.wp.com/lh5.ggpht.com/-9IIhEzkrNRs/Unr8oW51VdI/AAAAAAAAASU/w7qbmMnhZp8/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png "Search Inside Not Outside - Kabir")
Self
[Vivekachudamani]
Meaning: That which knows everything that happens in the waking, dream, and deep-sleep states, That which is aware of the presence or absence of the mind and its functions, That which is the essence behind the ego, is the Self.
Comments: Self is, “Impersonal Awareness”. If you find it difficult to understand, it is because your mind has the wrong notion that you are body etc. So, your mind wonders how can somebody be awareness and finds it difficult to digest. The process of Self Inquiry makes the mind rethink and eventually Self is recognised directly.
Mind Becomes the Self
Mandukya Karika Chapter 3, Verse 46.
Meaning: When the mind does not lapse into inactivity (like merging in sleep for example) and is not distracted by desires or is not agitated, that is to say, when it remains still and does not project objects, it becomes the Self.
Tera Sai Tujh Mein Hai (Kabir)
Jaise til mein tail hai, jyon chakmak mein aag
Tera sai tujh mein hai, tu jaag sake to jaag
जैसे तिल में तेल है, ज्यों चकमक में आग
तेरा साईं तुझ में है, तू जाग सके तो जाग
Summary: The truth is within you.
Explanation: Just as oil is contained in the sesame seed and fire is within the flint stone, your lord is inside you, wake up if you can.