Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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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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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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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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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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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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