The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHISuffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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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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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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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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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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Dive 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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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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