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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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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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