Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHICorrecting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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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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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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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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Silence is also conversation.
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This 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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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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As you are, so is the world.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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