To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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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 must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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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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