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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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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 Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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The 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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True silence is really endless speech.
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Silence is also conversation.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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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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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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