Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet what comes come, let what goes go.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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 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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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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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 source of the ego is God.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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