The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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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