Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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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 Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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