Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet what comes come, let what goes go.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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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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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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