When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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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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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be 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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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