( VI.2 - 23 ) It is better to be a snake in a dark cave; it is better to be a worm in a rock; it is better to be a lame deer in a desert (mirage) than to remain in the company of ignorant people.
( III - 78 ) Even selfish ends are gained by the wise by appropriate means and proper behaviour or action, after they give up anger and mental agitation and resort to equanimity and clear mind.
( V - 41 ) 'This is pleasure', 'this is pain', 'this is', 'this is not' - only the mind of the ignorant swings like this, not of the wise.
( V - 21 ) Craving is the root of all sorrow, O Rama: and the only intelligent way is to renounce all cravings completely and not to indulge them.
( III - 4 ) In reality neither the objective universe, nor the perceiving self, nor perception as such, nor void, nor inertness exists;
only one is, cosmic consciousness (cit).
( VI.2 - 209 ) The three worlds are illusory products of delusion, but in it there are no divisions or contradictions.
What is impossible in an illusion.
( III - 71 72 ) The mind that is heading towards calamity first creates delusion and wickedness: and these themselves later expand into misfortune and sorrow.
( IV - 55 56 ) Hence, O Rama, you may feel, "I am not the doer, I do not exist", or "I am the doer and I am everything ".
Or enquire into the nature of the self - "Who am I?" - and realise "I am not any of this that is attrbuted to me."
Rest established in the self which is the highest state of consciousness, in which the best among the holy men who know of this state ever dwell.
( VI.2 - 176 ) Ignorance thinks of all this as ignorance and as limitless creation; but, when it is realised as Brahman, it itself becomes the pure Brahman.