Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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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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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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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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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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