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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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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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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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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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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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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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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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