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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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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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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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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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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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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 no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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