Tripura Rahasya

Hemalekha said,

• The Self does not admit of specification, and therefore no teacher can teach it. However, realize the Self within you, for it abides in unblemished intellect.
• It pervades all, beginning from the personal God to amoeba; but it is not cognizable by the mind or senses; being itself unillumined by external agencies, it illumines all, everywhere and always. It surpasses demonstration or discussion. 
• How, where, when, or by whom has it been specifically described even incompletely? What you ask me, dear, amounts to asking me to show your eyes to you.
• Even the best teachers cannot bring your eyes to your sight. Just as a teacher is of no use in this instance, so in the other. He can at best guide you towards it and nothing more. I shall also explain to you the means to realization. Listen attentively. 
• As long as you are contaminated with notions of me and mine, the Self will not be found, for it lies beyond cognition and it cannot be realized as 'my Self'.
• Retire into solitude, analyze and see what those things are which are cognised as mine; discard them all and transcending them, look for the Real Self.
• For instance, you know me as your wife and not as your self. I am only related to you and not part of you, much less your very being.
• Analyse everything in this way and discard it. What remains over, transcending it all, beyond conception, appropriation, or relinquishment - know That to be the Self. That knowledge is final emancipation.