The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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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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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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