Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFor those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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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 degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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