The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHICalmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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You are already That which you seek.
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