Behind My Hand

"There is no such thing as the experience of the real. The real is beyond experience. All  experience is in the mind. You know the real by being real." - Nisargadatta Maharaj in "I Am That"

From Talk 275 When the man is ripe for receiving the instruction and his mind is about to sink into the Heart, the instruction imparted works in a flash and he realises the Self all right. Otherwise, there is always the struggle. - Ramana Maharshi - in Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi

Read a sample of B. K. S. Iyengar's Light on Life online here .

"The strict aloofness which appeared to me at first as sheer callousness on the part of the Maharshi, standing against the traditional concern said to be shown by the gurus to promote the spiritual advancement of their disciples, turned out across the years to be more potent in its action to purify, reform, guide and mature the disciples’ consciousness than the guru’s conscious interference. Without this detachment the guru is bound to grow partial and discriminative, which is fatal to the intention of help, for it ends by dissipating the special concentrated power inherent for the purpose in him." - S. S. Cohen in Guru Ramana; p. 165

Essence of Bhagavad Gita  - an English translation of the 42 verses selected by Ramana Maharshi and which he felt contained the essence of the text. Available for free.

Take a firm stand that the mind cannot interpret you. What the mind says is not you, don't be dictated by the mind, you are not the mind. The mind takes you for a ride, you feel you are going for a ride, your mind-inclinations want to enjoy; you say I want to enjoy.  - Nisargadatta in I AM UNBORN (Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)