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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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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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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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