The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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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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Guru, God and Self are One.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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