If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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