Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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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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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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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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