It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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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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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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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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As you are, so is the world.
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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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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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