Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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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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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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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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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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