Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHINearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Correcting 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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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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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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