The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
RAMANA MAHARSHITrue silence is really endless speech.
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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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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Even 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 search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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