The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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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.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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