The world is not outside you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll 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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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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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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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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