You need both clarity and earnestness for self-knowledge. You need maturity of heart and mind, which comes through earnest application in daily life … - Nisargadatta Maharaj

Cooperate with your destiny, don't go against it, don't thwart it. Allow it to fulfill itself.

I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

The scriptures say that we have our ‘karma’ and our sin and that is why we are here, but this is for the ignorant masses. One who has realized the self-knowledge ‘I am’ for him these stories are of no use.