Knowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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The source of the ego is God.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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