Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Life Principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    Life Principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    But if you love the other knowing that it is the life principle alone in the other that you love, then that love becomes sublime.


  • Atmananda krishna menon on External qualities

    Atmananda krishna menon on External qualities

    If you love another for his or her gross and external qualities alone, that love is of the lowest type. – Atmananda krishna menon


  • Consciousness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Consciousness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Thought must have an object, but Consciousness has none. – Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Attribute of the ultimate ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Attribute of the ultimate ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Equality or oneness is the attribute of the Ultimate. It is established only when you reach the Ultimate, transcending body, senses and mind. – Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Empty words ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    Empty words ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    When you find that what you see is only yourself, the ‘seeing’ and ‘objects’ become mere empty words..- Atmananda krishna menon


  • The I-principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    The I-principle ~ Atmananda krishna menon

    By reducing objects into Consciousness or happiness, you come only to the brink of experience. Reduce them further into the ‘I’-principle; and then ‘it’, the object, and ‘you’, the subject, both merge into experience itself. – Atmananda krishna menon


  • Form ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Form ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Form is nothing but seeing. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • The word ‘I’ ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    The word ‘I’ ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    The word ‘I’ has the advantage of taking you direct to the core of your self. But you must be doubly sure that you will no longer return to identification with the body ― Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Diversity ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Diversity ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Diversity is only in objects. Consciousness, which perceives them all, is one and the same ― Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Self-forgetfulness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Self-forgetfulness ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Self-forgetfulness is the cause of the creation of the world, and self-remembrance or withdrawal to the Self is the destruction of the world. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • The truth is now ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    The truth is now ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    The truth is now and here. So it is everywhere. If it is not first found now and here, it will be found nowhere else and at no other time. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon


  • Human Effort ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    Human Effort ~ Atmananda Krishna Menon

    The human effort consists of creating bondage for oneself, clinging fast to it, and wanting to become free without giving up bondage itself. ― Atmananda Krishna Menon