This page lists some of the all-time best Atmananda Krishna Menon quotes. Enjoy!
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- Nonduality & Direct Path Quotes
- Subject & Object Quotes
- Body & Mind Quotes
- Witness & Doer Quotes
- I & I Am Quotes
50+ Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on Nonduality, Witness, Doer, & More
Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on Nonduality & Direct Path
“The substratum of all is one and the same. Diversity is only of things perceived. The substratum remains unperceived; therefore there is no diversity in it. That is existence, that is one’s Self, that is consciousness pure, beauty transcendent and the abode of peace.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The truth, which is One thing, is kept divided by mere words.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Nothing exists independently of Consciousness … What is really existing is Consciousness alone.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“When Consciousness begins to receive due attention, it becomes revealed in objects, as well and they themselves will in due course become transformed into Consciousness. It is the realisation of oneself and the entire world as one Consciousness that is known as realisation of Truth.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“There is nothing outside: all is within. What is within is Myself, and therefore the experiencer and the experience are one and the same, that is Myself … The whole world is Consciousness which is Myself. I am perfect and indivisible.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“How can thoughts which rise and set in Me, be other than Myself? When there is thought, I am seeing Myself; when there is no thought, I am remaining in My own glory … Thought is nothing but Consciousness and Consciousness is My Being. Therefore the whole world is Consciousness which is Myself.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“When water is realised, wave and sea vanish. What appeared as two is thus realised as one. Water can be reached straightaway from wave by following the direct path. If the way through the sea is taken, much more time is needed.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“He, whose mind is captivated by the beauty of a figure sculpted in a piece of rock, forgets even the fact of the rock being its background. When he rises above this captivation and looks at the figure, he sees the background rock, which supports the figure. When the rock thus receives attention, rock is seen also in the figure, and later on the figure is seen as nothing other than rock. Enlightenment of truth also comes in this manner.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“For the sage, his stand is that he is pure consciousness … A sage knows well that consciousness is self-luminous and that it is consciousness that illumines the entire world. He knows also that his real nature is consciousness and experience and cannot as such be known or experienced. Hence he does not desire or make any attempt to know or experience it. The sage knows from the deepest conviction that he is consciousness and that he has attained what has to be attained. Because consciousness never undergoes any change, he knows also that he is changeless … He is forever contented, free and happy.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on Subject & Object
“Experience proves that the objective world will always appear in perfect tune with the stand taken up by the subject. Therefore, it is not the objective world which presents obstacles to one’s spiritual progress, but the false stand one has taken up. If this is given up, spiritual enlightenment follows.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Body, sense-organs, mind, will and intellect come under the category of objects … Sense-objects such as sound, touch, smell, etc., are mere thought-forms … Form can exist only as the object of seeing and never independently of it. This rule applies to all sense-objects.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Birth, growth, decay and destruction are characteristic of matter, the object of Consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Objects of Consciousness can never be separated from Consciousness itself. They have no independent existence. They are therefore nothing other than Consciousness … The entire objective world is also nothing other than Consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Variety is in the objects (of consciousness). The perceiving consciousness is one and the same throughout … Objects can never cause any change in consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Consciousness becomes dimmed chiefly through one’s captivation and abiding interest in external objects. When one outgrows this interest and looks at the objects it will be found that they rise and abide in Consciousness alone.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“It is in Consciousness that objects rise … Observing carefully, one can see every thought arise and set in pure Consciousness alone.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The seer as such can never be the seen, and the seen as such can never be the seer … Before the seeing, there is no ‘seen’ and there is no ‘seen’ after the seeing … When this truth is clearly understood, it will be evident that there is no ‘seen’ even at the time of the seeing.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on Body & Mind
“It is mind that has thoughts and feelings, not I. Birth, growth, decay and death pertain to the body and not to Me. I am not body—I have no body. I am no mind—I have no mind.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The stand of an ignorant, worldly man is that he is a body, gross or subtle … When he perceives the body, he becomes its possessor and when doesn’t perceive it, he remains as body. Whatever happens to the body is claimed by him to be happening to himself on account of the close identification.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The thought that one is the body, gross or subtle, is the cause of all bondage. If the thought is that one is Consciousness, and that thought is deep and strong, one becomes freed from all bondage at once.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Are not body, prana, and all mind-modifications, percepts? Consciousness, the Self, is the perceiver. Those who, forgetting this, identify Self with body, mind, etc., live in bondage. Those who, by wise discrimination, rise above this wrong identification become liberated and rest in peace in their true nature.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The attribution of reality to things which rise in thoughts is the cause of all bondage … There was no bondage before, there is none now and there will not be any hereafter, since thought has no existence.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“There is no thought. There is only Consciousness … The content of thought is Consciousness. If this truth is always kept alive, thought will soon vanish and Consciousness will reign. Then comes liberation from all bondage.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Consciousness going out towards objects is mind. That which turns towards the Self is pure Satva.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on Witness & Doer
“The embodied ‘I’ was witnessed by another ‘I’ principle at the time of this perception, action or enjoyment. It is this witnessing ‘I’ that is the real ‘I.’ Fixing attention there, and establishing oneself in it, one becomes freed from bondage.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Knowledge objectified is thought. Then the ‘I’ remains as the witness of thought. Without My being seen as the witness, thought is joined to Me and I am made the thinker by living beings. And subsequently, the thinker is made the physical perceiver and then the corresponding thought becomes a gross object. Thus living beings make of Me the world, and ignoring Me, live in bondage.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I am always standing behind you disinterestedly witnessing your varied activities. You can see Me so without much effort. As soon as you turn behind to see Me, I will take you into the inmost core of your being and there you will see Me. Later on, you will see Me in your thoughts and feelings. Still later, you will see that the thoughts and feelings are none other than Myself. Since all objects are mere thought-forms, they will also be seen in the end as Myself. Then you will not see Me different from yourself. Your claim that you are I will become true only when you reach that state.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Only one who, right through, maintains a disinterested witness’s standpoint and examines things calmly with a critical and never-faltering eye, can realise this absolute Truth.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I alone shine as the undisturbed peace and happiness. I am the inmost principle which is Sat-Chit-Ananda itself. I am That which transcends all. Just before and just after every thought and feeling, I shine in My own glory by Myself. It is in Me that thoughts and feelings rise and set. I am their changeless Witness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The ‘I’ does not change. The ‘I’ persists in all states. It is there when there is thought. It is there when there is no thought. If so, what other evidence is needed to show that it cannot be the doer or enjoyer, which means change? At the time a thing is being done, there is no thought or feeling that one is doing it. This is further proof that one is not the doer. Claiming to have done a thing after the doing cannot make one the doer. The intense feeling that one is neither the doer nor enjoyer removes all bondage and one’s real nature comes to light thereby.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I have no mine-ness, attachment or egoism. I am eternal, non-doer, all purity, self-dependent and self-luminous. Attributeless, changeless and unconditioned, I am the abode of Love, stainless, the one without second and ever peaceful.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I am no doer, I am no enjoyer. I am pure consciousness which knows no dissolution.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The non-doer-Consciousness is always ‘enjoying’ Itself.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
Atmananda Krishna Menon Quotes on I & I am
“He who says, ‘I have consciousness,’ or ‘I am conscious,’ is separating consciousness from himself; this is surprising. What is not consciousness comes under the category of the known. The ‘I’ is always the knower and can never be the known. Therefore consciousness and the ‘I’ are one and the same … Even the word knower is wrong, because the changeless knower is knowledge (consciousness) itself; not an embodied being.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“That which shines just before and after every thought and feeling is the ‘I’. That is objectless consciousness … Objectless thought is one’s real domain, formless and changeless. It is this that is pointed to by the word ‘I’.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“The ‘I’ is always the perceiver and never an object of perception. As it is not an object of perception, direct contemplation of the ‘I’ is out of the question.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Is not oneself (Consciousness), the real Perceiver? To examine thoughts one has to take one’s stand in perceiving Consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I am pure consciousness which knows no dissolution … All beings stand established as pure consciousness.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I am That which transcends all … I am the inmost principle which is Sat-Chit-Ananda itself.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“Whether objects are present or absent, I am always there without change … Whether the objects are present or absent, he who has seen pure consciousness stands in it always.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“It is in and through Me that all men see, yet they don’t see Me … I am that Consciousness that remains over after the removal of everything objective from Me … I am pure Consciousness. Realising that every object wherever placed is asserting Me, I enjoy Myself everywhere and in everything.” — Atmananda Krishna Menon
“I am the Light of Consciousness in all thoughts and perceptions and the Light of Love in all feelings. I have no birth and death, nor grief and delusion. I transcend bondage and liberation.”
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