The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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