The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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The world is not outside you.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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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 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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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