Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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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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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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