If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConcentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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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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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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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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Nearly 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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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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