Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.