Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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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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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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