Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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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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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 Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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