The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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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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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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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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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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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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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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