Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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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 state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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