When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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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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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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