Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAn 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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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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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.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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