Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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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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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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