Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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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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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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 experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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