This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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