Quotes from Nirvana Upanishad

• Without knowing the self, there is no immortality.
   
• Oneness with the beyond is his message of salvation.
  The non-duality of eternal bliss is his god.
  Mastery of the inner senses is his guiding light.
   
• Shunya, the void, is not just symbolic:
  it is the existence of the divine.
  (Brahman) is realized by discrimination (of the real from the unreal)
  (and) it is beyond the reach of the mind and speech.
   
• This world is transitory.
  One who has taken birth in it, is living as if in a dream,
  as false as an elephant seen in the clouds.
  In the same way, your desires and imaginations
  are the result of the impact of the body and the senses;
  they are all illusions, like a rope that appears to be a snake.
  So the aim is to realize the brahman,
  the ultimate reality.
   
• Patience is the sannyasin’s carry-bag.
  Indifference is his loincloth.
  Conscious thought is his staff.
   
• Awareness is the sannyasin’s protection;
  Compassion is his only play;
  Bliss is his mala – his bead necklace;
  The aloneness of the inner cave is his posture;
  Unwavering joy is his only dialogue.
  Unplanned are his alms.
   
• Through yoga,
  the sannyasin constantly experiences the blissful self.
  The only alms he longs for is bliss.
  Even deep in a cemetery, he lives as if in a pleasure-garden.
  Aloneness is his only abode.
  He tirelessly strives for the light.
  His movement is into no-mind.
  His body is clean and pure.
  Non-dependence is his refuge.
  His activities are like a playing, dancing river.
   
• Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger
  is the sannyasin’s renunciation.
  He savors only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality.