Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHave faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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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 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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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