The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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