Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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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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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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