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.

RAMANA MAHARSHI

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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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Bagwalas

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.

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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Mindset
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.

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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Oneself See
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

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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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See
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

RAMANA MAHARSHI

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Expression Meaning Mindset
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.

RAMANA MAHARSHI

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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Aware Consciousness Ego Fake Hold
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.

RAMANA MAHARSHI

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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Form Name Oneself See Worship
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.

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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Word
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.

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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Doubt Rise
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

RAMANA MAHARSHI

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Destruction
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.

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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Ego See
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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