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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThis perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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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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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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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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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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Even 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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