The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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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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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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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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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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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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