Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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