The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHIKnowing the Self, God is known.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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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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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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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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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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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