The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHIReality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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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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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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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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The world is not outside you.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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