To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHIReality 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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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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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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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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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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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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You are already That which you seek.
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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 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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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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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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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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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