The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAim 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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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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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 state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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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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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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