Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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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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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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 ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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