If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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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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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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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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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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