Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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The 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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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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It 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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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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