The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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