Knowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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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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 itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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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.”
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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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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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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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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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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