Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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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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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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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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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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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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