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 MAHARSHIEven 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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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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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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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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The source of the ego is God.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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