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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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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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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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As you are, so is the world.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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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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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 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.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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