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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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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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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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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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