You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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 state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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The world is not outside you.
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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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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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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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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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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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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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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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