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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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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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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Meditation 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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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