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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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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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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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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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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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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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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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