It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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 pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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You are already That which you seek.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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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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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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