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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIKnowing the Self, God is known.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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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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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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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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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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