Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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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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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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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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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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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