Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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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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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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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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You 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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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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