Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Even 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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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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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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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It 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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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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