Quotes from Advaita Ebook Tripura Rahasya

(Tripura Rahasya is an ancient prime text on Advaita in Sanskrit
and was highly commended by Ramana Maharshi for study by seekers.)

• The Self is always peaceful.
   
• As long as the ignorance of the self lasts, so long will there be misery.
   
• You are not the body, nor the senses, nor the mind, because they are all transient. The body is composed of food, so how can you be the body?
   
• The Self is pure unblemished consciousness. Be quick! Realize it quickly and
  gain transcendental happiness!
   
• The sole necessity for Self-realization is purity of mind. The only impurity
  of the mind is thought. To make it thought-free is to keep it pure.
   
• Unbroken supreme awareness even in the dream
  state is the mark of the highest order.
   
• Moksha (liberation) is not to be sought in heavens,
  on earth or in the nether regions. It is synonymous with
  Self-realisation.
   
• Moksha (liberation) is not anything to be got afresh, for it is
  already there only to be realized. Such realization arises with
  the elimination of ignorance.
   
• Retire into solitude, analyse and see what those
  things are which are cognized as mine; discard them all and
  transcending them, look for the Real Self.
   
• Dispassion for the pleasures of life arises in a devotee
  who gradually begins to long for knowledge of the truth and
  becomes absorbed in the search for it.
   
• Has anyone ever got anything great, without
  contact with the wise? In any case, it is the company
  which determines the future of the individual.
   
• The ignorant are not aware of the pure Self; they
  see it as always blemished and hence they believe in the
  reality of objective knowledge. They are therefore affected
  by the pleasures and pains of life.