All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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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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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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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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