Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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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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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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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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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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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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