Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
RAMANA MAHARSHINearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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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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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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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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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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The 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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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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