The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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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.
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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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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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