The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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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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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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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.
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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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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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