Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOne must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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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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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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