Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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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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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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 entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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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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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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