Knowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHISense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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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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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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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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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to 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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