- Butter goes with buttermilk and buttermilk goes with butter. If there is buttermilk, there is butter; if there is butter, there is also buttermilk. If there is Atman, there is anatman (non-Atman) too.
- The Naked One (Totapuri) used to teach how to live in one’s own real Self: merge the mind in the intellect and the intellect in the Atman. Then you will be established in the real nature of the Atman.
- If someone burns a bird’s nest, it flies hither and thither, taking shelter in the sky. If one genuinely realizes that the body and the world are unreal, one’s soul attains samadhi.
- When one has a direct vision of the Atman, one accepts all this. All doubts vanish when one has vision of God.
- The Naked One (Totapuri) used to teach how to live in one’s own real Self: merge the mind in the intellect and the intellect in the Atman. Then you will be established in the real nature of the Atman.
- If someone burns a bird’s nest, it flies hither and thither, taking shelter in the sky. If one genuinely realizes that the body and the world are unreal, one’s soul attains samadhi.
- When one has a direct vision of the Atman, one accepts all this. All doubts vanish when one has vision of God.
Pure Atman
- God revealed to me that the Paramatman, which is described as the pure Atman in the Vedas, is immutable, like Mount Sumeru, unattached and beyond happiness and sorrow.