The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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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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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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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.
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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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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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