This is a curated selection of Pravrajika Divyanandaprana quotes (primarily sourced from publicly available videos, and personally curated by me on my own lifelong learning journey). This page is intended as a learning resource for educational purposes and only meant to offer an overview/introduction. Short quotes aren’t a substitute for source material, so if this page sparks your interest, explore more deeply by checking out Pravrajika Divyanandaprana’s books (Amazon).
Page Contents:
- Body & Mind Quotes
- Joy & Happiness Quotes
- Subject & Object Quotes
- ‘I’ & Inquiry Quotes
- Awareness & Consciousness Quotes
25 Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on Inquiry, Awareness, Happiness, & More
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on Body & Mind
“You are aware of the body. Is the body ever aware of you? No. You will become aware of your thoughts also. Do your thoughts ever become aware of you? No. Why? They are not self-aware.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You are aware of the body-mind complex; body-mind is not aware of you … You, the Self, are functioning through the body-mind complex.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You are not merely this body-mind complex. Don’t do this injustice to yourself that you will only identify with this and allow the whole world to identify you with this. You are the Atman functioning through the body-mind complex. You are divinity itself embodied in this form. This is your real nature; assert that divinity.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Conscious experience continues. Body changes, mind changes—but you continue always … As the earth and moon are lit by borrowed light, the body and mind become ‘conscious’ due to the presence of the Atman.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“If you think you are only the body, you will only want a material civilization … If you think you are the mind, you will have an intellectual civilization … If you think you are the Self, you will have a value-based society because consciousness is the only factor which is common in all of us. Bodies are different, minds are different … You have found the common factor in all creation—this naturally makes for a very inclusive outlook and a sense of oneness with all existence … When this experience comes, you don’t have to tell the person he has to be good or ethical or do things for others—the other person is ‘me’ in another form. That is why naturally it will be a philosophy of acceptance, inclusiveness, and oneness. That is why this knowledge is so very important to the evolution of humankind.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on Joy & Happiness
“Happiness is directly proportional to your awareness. The deeper your awareness, the happier you will be by yourself. The more cluttered your mind—which means the lesser your awareness—the more you require objects to keep you happy and engaged.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Happiness is equal to pleasure plus engagement plus meaning … If we are doing something which is sufficiently meaningful, you don’t require anything else to keep you happy. It is clearly seen that if you have enough meaning to your life, you can actually dispense with even pleasure and engagement.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“What you repeat, you will become that. What you repeatedly feel in your mind, you will start experiencing that. What you repeatedly imagine, you will actually create that.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“The highest rung on the ladder of happiness lies in what we call meditation or that transcendental state where you are totally captured/absorbed/immersed in a very high level of awareness—in a transcendental level of consciousness where the mind does not flip from object to object … It leaves you completely satisfied, in bliss, in rapture and ecstasy.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“When the mind touches the source, it becomes imbued with a very high level of awareness or consciousness … Spiritual knowledge, or the knowledge of the Self, is considered to be the source of happiness.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on Subject & Object
“How can you know something about an object without knowing the subject? How can you not be interested in this? This is the truth about you … To be able to combine objective knowledge and subjective knowledge is real genius.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Thought is always objective to your being—that is why you can acknowledge the presence of thought and also the absence of thought. You, as awareness, continue always—thought comes into that awareness, moves out, next thought comes in, moves out.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You are in time, space, and causation because you are identified with the body. If you think you are the mind, time and space and causation are in you because they are in the mind. If you think you are awareness, everything is in you—subject and object is one seamless reality.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You, awareness, are the subject—the rest is an object to you … I find my thoughts in my awareness. I find objects in my awareness. Awareness is fundamental to everything else.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Consciousness: you can only be it, you cannot know it as an object … It is knowledge by being … Consciousness is neither an object nor physical.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on ‘I’ & Inquiry
“There is no belief system here. There is no believing in something … You don’t require a philosophy to tell you this … It’s no theory or hypothesis—it is the most fundamental fact of our experience and existence … It is there in the very structure of your experience … All you have to do is conduct a first-person research inquiry to come into the science of consciousness. It’s the most practical science.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Phenomenological inquiry means from the standpoint of the subject— how does the thing feel? … Experience is always in the first person. You must learn to do phenomenological inquiry in the first person … Phenomenology is such a wonderful method to study subjective experiences because it is a first-person research method … Phenomenology is essentially an open-ended qualitative method, but inductive, and leaning heavily on the experience of the researcher.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“Who are you? Who is this human being despite all this change? Is there something permanent about you, something continuous about you, running through all the experiences of life? This is the fundamental inquiry … What feels like the most fundamental thing in your experience? Is it your thought, is it your emotion, is it your will, or is it your awareness? What feels most fundamental?” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“What is the unchanging element in me? …. It is only the I-sense, awareness, that is the permanent factor here. The rest is all changing … There is one common denominator to all your life’s experiences—that’s your I-sense … Our I-sense can wear whatever it wants, be whatever it wants, but yet you are the same ‘I’. That I-sense continues; body and minds change.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“What is that uniting factor which makes me feel, ‘I see, I think, I feel, I speak?’ … Consciousness is that. It is what enables your entire system—the sense organs, the mind, everything—to function … Your eyes cannot see that, but it enables your eyes to see.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
Pravrajika Divyanandaprana Quotes on Awareness & Consciousness
“How Vedanta understands the human personality is ‘persona’ means mask—it’s a mask through which you are functioning … The core truth about the human personality is consciousness—everything arises and depends on that to become what it is, to function as it does … Vedanta is the science of consciousness, and yoga is the technology of consciousness. The technology leads to the science … If you bring your mind to a certain level of stillness and stability, you can just know these facts—they will just enter your mind because they are already there.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You can tell me about your thoughts which means you saw them as a witness. You can do metacognition—thinking about thinking … The witness consciousness stabilizes itself in its real nature. That is the end of this process of yoga. You are able to find out who you really are—that is the purpose.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“This is what meditation and spiritual practices aim at: catching the essential you—the unchanging you—identifying it and isolating it to a certain extent. You will see you are not isolating anything, you are just being your real Self, and the rest is actually objective to your experience … What is the proof of the knowledge? It’s right within you. Your awareness is the proof of the greatest thing that the scriptures can tell.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“You require awareness to validate the existence of anything else. Only if you are aware, then you can perceive something … Awareness is required to testify to the presence of anything else. So, what will be required to testify to the presence of awareness? This is a logical impossibility. Because you are aware, you perceive. That is why absolute existence belongs to awareness alone.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
“If I know my own nature as the Self, as pure consciousness, I will see you as me in another form … The other person is nothing but you in other form. Awareness is the only common factor in all of us … Herein lies our unity, the unity of all existence.” — Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
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