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?
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven 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 “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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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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The world is not outside you.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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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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