The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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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 source of the ego is God.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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