When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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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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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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