Chit
चित्
/t͡ʃɪt/
Definition
Pure consciousness, which is the nature of the real self
Quotes
May 25, 2024 · Silent Retreat
“What remains right now? Your mind is blank. That alone remains.”
“Without options, say you're not paying attention to the mind ego, your name and form — what remains in that total surrender? Is anything left? Retreat finished.”
“Satya is truth. Chit is the awareness — you are that awareness totally at every moment, that eternal awareness. And Ananda is joy, pure joy. Satchitananda — that is your true nature.”
“That awareness does not leave you for a moment. That awareness is always you. It's within you.”
“Every morning when you get up, you remind yourself — you are the Satchitananda. Then even during the day when the mind comes in to jolt you or to sabotage you, you say no, no, I am the Satchitananda.”
“Maybe I'm not fully experienced it, but I know it.”
“The state of the ego-mind is agitation and suffering and sorrow, resentment, jealousy, anger. But if you are in the state of Satchitananda, which is the pure Self — only joyfulness, only serenity, capacity to be unconditionally loving to all.”
“There's no conflict because there is no other. You become the Self. The Self is only one, folks.”
“You and I are the same. Only one. There's only one Self — Satchitananda.”
“Because you are already that, you are already the Satchitananda. So what is the problem?”
“The problem is the mind, no? The problem is the mind. Now you know you are not the mind, you are not the body.”
“So is it so difficult to negate and not give it as much importance as you have given thus far?”
May 26, 2024 · Silent Retreat
“Why is it that it resonated with her only yesterday? Because of the vibration in which she's been sitting.”
“When you get up in the morning, you are Satchitananda. You have to remind yourself you are that.”