It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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