The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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You are already That which you seek.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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