All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
RAMANA MAHARSHIOur identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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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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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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