Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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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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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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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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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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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