If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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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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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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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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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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