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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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As you are, so is the world.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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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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