You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The world is not outside you.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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