When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick, every time a stick is thrown, you run after it Instead be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower.
One only throws a stick at a lion once.
#Milarepa
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Your heart knows the way.
Run in that direction.
#Rumi
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
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I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude,
Where everything
I touch is turned into prayer
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Remember,
the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.
#Rumi
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No life will be a failure; there is no such thing as failure in the universe. A hundred times man will hurt himself, a thousand times he will tumble, but in the end he will realise that he is God.
#SwamiVivekananda
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But those who are against this jnana that I am teaching, and do not put it into practice in their lives, have lost their discernment and live
in a state of constant confusion.
#TheBhagavadGita 3-32
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Though you are the real owners of a treasure, through error you have lost it. For want of knowledge of the Self, all your belongings are in the possession of others.
In what hope are you passing your days?
How can you be content without having your belongings in your possession?
Always you think, 'I EXIST! Every moment your body and mind are changing, but in the midst of all these changes the unchangeable notion 'I EXIST' persists.
You never think 'I do not exist'. This awareness of 'I exist' is the reflection of the real 'I AM'.
When children play 'turn-around', they see the house, hut, door etc. revolving. Your mind is unsteady on account of your desire for sense objects, so you cannot see the True Reality. Be steady and you will find the Truth.
- The Life and the Teachings of #BrahmajnaMa
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True wisdom comes from within. It is not available from outside. Real knowledge is not 'knowing' but
'self-discovering'-
#Gyaneshwar
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Maya can be destroyed by the realization of the pure Brahman, the one without a second, just as mistaken idea of a snake is
removed by the discrimination of the rope.
#SriShankara  Vivekachudamani
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The Truth is so simple and pure, it doesn't need to be taught or learned. It needs only to be pointed out and recognised.
#Mooji
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Whether you worship Christ,
Krishna, Kali or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you, since It pervades all things.
#AnandamayiMa
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One visitor, an Irish journalist frankly asked her, "Why are you in this world?" "In this world?" Mataji answered, "I am not anywhere. I am myself reposing within myself'! During the same conversation the Irishman said, "I am a Christian:' Maa answered, "So am I, a Christian, a Muslim, anything you like.
#AnandamayeeMa
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If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody.
So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else.
#Papaji
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Be true to your own self, and love yourself absolutely. Don't pretend to be what you are not, don't refuse to be what you are.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Silence
is the true teaching.
It is the perfect teaching.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A visitor asked, " If the ego or
"I" be an illusion who then casts off the illusion ?"
The "I" casts off the illusion of
"I" and yet remains as "I".
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True renunciation is the renunciation of desires, passions and attachments.
#SriRamanaMaharishi
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One should try to gain equipoise of mind under all circumstances.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The eyes can be closed or open as one finds convenient.
It is not the eyes that see.
There is one who sees through the eyes.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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What is required is an earnest and one-pointed enquiry into the source of aham-vritti. (the 'I-thought', the limited feeling of 'I-ness')
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The main thing is to see that the mind does not turn outward but inward.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


You need not aspire for or get any new state.
Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The Heart is the only Reality.
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Spiritual ego
I am enlightened
I know better
I know everything I will teach you I will help you I am so kind
I am so divine
I am going to help you in your enlightenment in 24 hours or 1 week or one year
Enlightened person is not existent to self.
There is no one left to Claim those claims.
An enlightened person is Just an energy field of consciousness
inter-acting with other energy fields
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Shutting out all external sense objects, keeping the eyes and vision concentrated between the two eyebrows, suspending the inward and outward breaths within the nostrils, and thus controlling the mind, senses and intelligence, the transcendentalist aiming at liberation becomes free from desire, fear and anger. One who is always in this state is certainly liberated. #BhagavadGita
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Do not answer any argument, but go away calmly, because arguments only disturb the mind. The only thing necessary is to train the intellect, what is the use of disturbing it for nothing? The intellect is but a weak instrument, and can give us only knowledge limited by the senses. The Yogi wants to go beyond the senses, therefore intellect is of no use to him. He is certain of this and, therefore, is silent, and does not argue. Every argument throws his mind out of balance, creates a disturbance in the Chitta, and a disturbance is a drawback.
#SwamiVivekananda
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#AshtavakraGita
Truly dualism is the root of suffering. There is no other remedy for it than the realisation that all this that we see is unreal, and that I am the one stainless reality, consisting of consciousness.
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If you have any problems in life, don't blame others. Because it is your karma that brings these bad experiences to you. A good seeker or student understands this and does not complain.
#Gurudev
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Do not be like the naughty child who wants to do the very thing he is told not to do... Evil was made sweet to delude you. You have to use your discrimination to distinguish between poisoned honey and that which is in your best interest.
Avoid those things that will ultimately hurt you, and choose those that will give give you freedom and happiness.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquillity. To such a man happiness and distress, heat and cold, honor and dishonor are all the same.
#BhagavadGita
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You came to earth to accomplish a divine mission Ito be reunited with Godl. Realize how tremendously important that is! Do not allow the narrow ego to obstruct your attainment of an infinite goal.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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If anyone hurts you and you forgive him, you are leading yourself to the kingdom of God.
If anyone is quarrelsome and you give understanding, you are taking yourself to the kingdom of God.
If someone is suffering and you reach out with aid and compassion, you are moving into the presence of God.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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One should be capable of forgetting things. That is far more important than the capacity to remember things.
Remembrance is very ordinary; forgetfulness is unique.
And many people suffer from remembrance.
Remembrance is like going on playing with your wounds so you never allow them to heal. The healing comes through forgetfulness. Forgetfulness is healing - and if you can forget the past you are forgiving the past.
#OSHO
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The ego is an iceberg. Melt it.
Melt it in deep love, so it disappears and you become part of the ocean.
#OSHO
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Only a wounded
heart knows
the secret of the Soul.
#Rumi


Our death is our wedding with eternity.
#Rumi
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There will come a time one will have to forget all that one has learned.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Let that which happens, happen as it has to happen [i.e. as it is destined by God to happen].
Do not think to go against it even in the least.
Without doing anything as a new starting, abide as one with the Sakshi [Self] who peacefully shines in the Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The Heart is not physical.
Meditation should not be on the right or the left.
Meditation should be on the Self.
Everyone knows I am.
Who is the I?
It will be neither within nor without, neither on the right nor on the left.
I am' - that is all.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The body is itself a mere projection of the mind, and the mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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We are reading the printed characters on paper but ignore the paper which is the background.
Similarly you are taken up by the manifestations of the mind and let go the background.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Just as the sun cannot be seen in a densely clouded sky, so one's own Self cannot be seen in a mind-sky which is darkened by a dense cloud of thoughts.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Surrender is to give oneself up to the original source of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining such source to be some God outside you.
One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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It's so funny. It's all a joke.
You are free, pure Consciousness right now.
But you have to feel this.
There's nothing you have to do, for you are already That;
beautiful, happy, fulfilled, complete, absolute.
It's wonderful.
You are absolutely free right now.
You were never born and you can never die.
YOU ARE THE ONE. Right Now. FEEL IT.
Wake up! Know yourself.
You are the source.
The source has always been you.
When you know this, it makes you feel so good, you laugh hysterically.
You will laugh in joy and ecstasy, that you are the One.
#RobertAdams
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In enjoyments, there is the fear of disease;
In social position, the fear of falling off;
In wealth, the fear of hostile kings;
In honour, the fear of humiliation;
In power, the fear of enemies;
In beauty, the fear of old age;
In scholarship, the fear of learned opponents;
In virtue, the fear of slander;
In body, the fear of death.
- (Vairagya Shatakam 31)
All the things in the world are associated with fear.
Detachment alone leads to fearlessness.
#SwamiTyagananda
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The eye through with I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and god's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.
#MeisterEckhart
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At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
#LaoTzu
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There is only one place to look for God: in the heart of a true lover.
#ShamsTabrizi
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I am not keeping you from having the things of this world.
I am keeping the world from having you.
#Rumi
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Now I am sober,
and there's only the hang over and the memory of love...
#Rumi


We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!
#Rumi
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The most powerful way to resist evil is to sit with good friends who have turned their faces to God.
#Rumi
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Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the Universe.
#WuWei
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When the five senses and the mind are stilled, when the reasoning intellect rests in silence, then begins the highest path.
#The KathaUpanishad
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Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity.
You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
#Rumi
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God looks not at your form, nor at your deeds, but at your Heart.
#Rumi
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Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.
#RamDass
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We have closed down that intuitive heart way of knowing the universe and substituted for it the intellectual way. Knowing is a conceptual analytic structure, so we think about everything to know whether we know it or not. If we know each other through our minds and through our needs and through our personality, through our ego structures, we are always separate from each other, we are always like objects to each other, and the heart is never fed. There is another way.
#RamDass
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The only Lasting beauty is the Beauty of the Heart.
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Consciousness sleeps in minerals, dreams in plants, wakes up in animals,
and becomes self-aware in humans.
#Rumi
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Burn the forest of duality with the fire of the conviction, "I am the one pure Consciousness' and remain happy.
#YogaVasishta
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True wisdom comes from within. It is not available from outside. Real knowledge is not 'knowing' but
'self-discovering'.
#Gyaneshwar


ONE IN TEN MILLION

Priest: What does Ma consider the most essential thing in life?

Anandamayi Ma: To try and find out 'Who am I'. To try to know that which has brought into existence one's body and mind. This also may become the search after God. But the first thing is to conceive the desire to know oneself. Finding one's Self, one has found God and finding God one has found one's Self — the one Atma.

Q: Are there many people who succeed in this quest?

Ma: Quite a number attain to some siddhi [a degree of attainment] or mukti [liberation], but only one in ten million arrives at complete Realization. It is very, very rare.

Question: Do you think you have reached the ultimate state?

Ma: (Laughs) Whatever you believe me to be, that I am.

Q: From what moment did you have that Realization?

Ma: When was I not?

#AnandamayiMa

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"Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God."
#ParamahansaYogananda
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*Shapeless awareness


I am the Self,
the witness of Consciousness, pure awareness.
I um not un object in consciousness but its Source, its witness,
pure shupeless awureness.
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The source of everything is one's own Self,
and if one realises the Self, one will not find anything different from the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


What is mind after all?
It is a projection of the Self.
See for whom it appears and from where it rises.
The I'-thought will be found to be the root-cause.
Go deeper.
The I-thought disappears and there is an infinitely expanded I'-consciousness.
When it puts on limitations it appears as individuals.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The present difficulty is that man thinks he is the doer.
But it is a mistake, It is the higher power which does everything and man is only a tool.
If he accepts that position he is free from troubles, otherwise he courts them.
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It is the feeling 'I work' that is the hinderance.
Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you. It will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce; your effort is the bondage. What is destined to happen will happen. So leave it to the Higher Power. It is not really your choice whether you renounce or retain.
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Keep your mind still.
That is enough.
The aim of all practices is to give up all practices.
When the mind becomes still, the power of the Self will be experienced.
The Self is all-pervading;
if the mind is in peace, then one begins to experience it.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Soul, mind, ego are mere words. There are no true entities of the kind.
Consciousness is the only truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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As soon as the mind reaches the heart inwardly investigating 'Who am I?, the one who is I' bows its head in shame (and dies, the one appears spontaneously as 'I am I'. Although it appears, it is not
I. It is 'vastu-purna' (the perfectly whole reality),
'vastu' (the essential reality) which is oneself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


So long as we are aware of any phenomena or forms other than ourself, we have risen and are standing as ego and we are thereby nourishing the ego.
To make it subside back into its source, to starve the ego, we need to give up being aware of anything other than ourself and be aware of ourself alone.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Thoughts, good or bad,
take you farther and not nearer, because the Self is more intimate than thoughts.

You are Self, whereas the thoughts are alien to the Self.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


All thoughts are sorrowful,
because thoughts take one's
attention away from the self,
which is undiluted
happiness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Your heart
is the light of this world
Don't hide it with your mind
#Mooji
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The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun. 😌❤🔥
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Wherever
There is craving
There is pain.
#Suzuki
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The vagaries of life though painful
teach us not to cling to this floating world.
#Ikkyu
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A noble heart never forces itself forward.
Every day is a fortunate day.
Live with cause and leave results to the great Law of the Universe.
Pass each day in peaceful
contemplation.
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If you can be love in any situation, then you are in meditation.
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To the mind that is still, the whole
universe surrenders.
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"Be still
Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity."
#Laotzu


"Be silent, Only the Hand of God Can remove The burdens of your heart."
#Rumi
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#Rumi
You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is within yourself.
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Think of Him with every breath.
Remember
that He breathes through you.
#anandamayima
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To surrender all activities, secular and sacred, unto the Feet of the Lord as an act of Love and to remember Him with love at all times, and to feel extremely desperate when one detects that even a few moments had passed in forgetfulness of the Lord
this is Supreme Devotion.
#SwamiChinmayananda
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"If you could be the architect of your ideal life, it would not compare to the life that is unfolding naturally as
perceived in a pure heart."
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This is a time-body, a mortal body, but an immortal presence is moving in it. While the body is still warm, use this bodily life to rediscover vour timeless being.
#Mooji
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You need body, mind, senses to see God a tolik vymozeností.
You don't need anything to follow God.
Don't even activate the thought, don't activate no energy to deactivate.
Contemplation and adoration of the Self is all you need.
Love: Surrender to Divinity and be still.
Wisdom: ask the Divine and be quiet.
Know "I am Home, I am Home by myself and without
stop looking at me.
#Papaji
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While you Live, Live Fearlessly, Because Nobody has created you.!
Out of your Own Light You are
Living.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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"To know the truth you need not undergo all this torture of learning.
Not by reading do you get the truth. BE QUIET, that is truth. BE STILL, that is God."
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Higher Power knows what to do and how to do it. Trust it.
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Once a Westerner asked
Should I become an ascetic or a Hindu to realize the Self?
#SriRamanaMaharshi smiled and replied:
You need not have to be this and that.
Be as you are.
Be still.
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You know that you know nothing.
Find out that knowledge.
That is liberation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


"In deep sleep man is devoid of possessions, including his own body. Instead of being unhappy he is quite happy. Everyone desires to sleep soundly.
The conclusion is that happiness is inherent in man and is not due to external causes. One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness."
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Silence is more effective than speech.
From silence came thought, from thought the ego and from the ego speech.
So if speech is effective, how much more effective must its original source be?
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Thoughts come and go.
Feelings come and go.
Find out what it is that remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Solitude amounts to making the mind still.
This can be done in a crowd too.
Solitude cannot efface one's thoughts.
Practice does it.
The same practice can be made here too.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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All such thoughts as "attainment is hard" or "Self-realization is far from me",
or "I have many difficulties to overcome to know Reality", should be given up,
~Conscious
as they are the main obstacles,
Immortality.
created by the false self, the ego.
They are untrue.
#SriRamamaMaharshi


Not seeking what is other than the Self is detachment or desirelessness;
not leaving the Self is wisdom.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


How to see the Self?
As the Self is one without a second, it is impossible to see it.
How to see God?
To see Him is to be consumed by Him.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


How shall I realize God?
Maharshi: God is an unknown entity.
Moreover, He is external. Whereas, the Self is always with you and it is you. Why do you leave out what is intimate and go in for what is external?
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What is not permanent, is not worth striving for.
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Repeat the old practice,
"To whom do thoughts arise?"
Keep up the practice until there are no breaks.
Practice alone will bring about continuity of awareness.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


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DISSOLVING IN ONENESS

During one of our walks near the foot of the hill, TPR was in an exalted, happy mood. He was murmuring Bhagavan's Upadesa Undiyar. When he came to the fourth verse, he started repeating it a few times. Suddenly, his face filled with joy and he uttered aloud, "Ondril ondru", which literally means, better than the previous.

He repeated it again and again. I asked him what he was trying to convey.

Instead of directly answering my question, TPR said,
"There are great advantages when one lives in close proximity with the guru. For the Guru will sometimes, suddenly come out with something unique, a never before uttered aspect of the Truth!"

After a long pause he continued, "The usual meaning of this verse, as contained in all publications, is,
'This is certain: worship, incantation, meditation are performed with body, voice and mind respectively, and are in an ascending order of value'.

But that morning, Bhagavan turned to me when we were walking on the hill and said, 'The catch words in this particular verse are 'ondril ondru'. Its meaning is given in all translations as if meditation is better than incantation and incantation is better than worship. It is true, 'ondru' in Tamil means 'one'.
But the deeper meaning of it is, merge, dissolve. Therefore, 'ondril ondru' truly means, if the seeker merges or dissolves oneself totally in any one of these methods - worship, incantation or meditation – that itself will fully emancipate him.
Dissolving one's ego, one's mind in the Self, is the crux of all spiritual effort.

So, the verse means that, worship, incantation, meditation are performed, respectively, with body, voice, mind. Each one of these methods is equally effective if one dissolves oneself totally, in any one of them. This is certain',
TPR continued,
"An assurance is needed only when one wants to emphasise a secret or when a rare meaning is expounded, isn't it? All the methods are equally meritorious, that is, each one is powerful. Then, where is the need to give an ascending or descending order of value to them? Merging the outgoing mind in the Self is all that is needed of a seeker! "

Let us meditate on this never before uttered aspect of Truth from Bhagavan.

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#SriRamanaMaharshi#

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#RobertAdams #SriRamanaMaharsh
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May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.
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To this One that ever is, antecedent to waking up, to that Ever-present substratum, the witnessing of the waking state happens.
#WuHsin
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Although you appear in earthly form your essence is pure consciousness.
You are the fearless guardian of divine light.
So come, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
#Rumi
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The easiest thing is to be Here in this Love, all else is effort and takes effort.  #Papaji
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You yourself are God. Think of Him alone, meditate on His being. Do not engage yourself in thinking of anybody else.
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There is nobody else, there is you only.
You are God; if God is not, you are not. If God is, you are.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The only way to experience eternal peace is to see yourself in your hearts.
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Humble yourself, you'll grow greater than the world. Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.
#Rumi
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#AshtavakraGita
In short, the great soul who has realized Truth is free of desire,
enjoyment and liberation.
In all of space and time he is attached to nothing.
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Until you know
nothing,
you will never know
Self.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Suffering turns men towards their Creator.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand.
It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be.
It is a let-go.
#Osho
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Awakening is not for you,, But from
you.
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When you catch onto your awakening the world does not change. You just see it differently, that's all. You acquire a feeling of immortality, a feeling of divine bliss so-to-speak, where things no longer have the power to affect you. In other words, in the state of enlightenment cause and effect does not exist for you. But those who are living in the world are going through their karma, and they're beholding themselves everywhere they look, for the world remember, is only a projection of your mind.
#RobertAdams
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Realisation is already there. The state free from thoughts is the only real state. There is no such action as realisation.
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The real is near, you do not have to seek it; and a man who seeks truth will never find it. Truth is in what is - and that is the beauty of it. But the moment you conceive it, the moment you seek it, you begin to struggle; and a man who struggles cannot under-stand. That is why we have to be still, observant, passively aware.
#JidduKrishnamurti
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Seekers continue to practice all kinds of self-torture without realizing that such
spiritual practice' is a reinforcement of the very ego that prevents them from their natural, free state.
#RameshBalsekar


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.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Stillness or peace is Realization.
What does stillness mean?
It means 'destroy yourself';
because, every name and form is the cause of trouble.
'I-I' is the Self.
'I am this' is the ego.
When the 'T' is kept up as the T' only, it is the Self.
When it flies off at a tangent and says 'I am this or that, I am such and such', it is the ego.
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Ignoring the mind is a beautiful sadhana. This is what many of the sages did.
They ignored the mind out of existence. It loses its influence and its potency when it is ignored.
#Mooji
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We have a tendency to think in terms of doing and not in terms of being.
We think that when we are not doing anything, we are wasting our time.
But that is not true.
Our time is first of all for us to be.
To be what?
To be alive, to be peaceful, to be joyful, to be loving.
That is what the world
needs most.
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Root out the aggression in your life, and learn to live compassionatey and mindfully.
Seek peace.
When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.
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Rooted in your own joy, you are yourself.
You do not perceive anything outside yourself.
In your Self you shine and are like space.
You are Brahman.
There is no doubt of this.
#RibhuGita


You may spend a thousand years hearing of knowledge in the Sastras, but you will never reach their end.
Endless is the expanse of the Sastras, the life-duration is but limited, obstacles are legion; it is wisdom to go straight to the essence of the scriptures, like the swan sipping milk out of water.
Study, know their essential truth and then leave them aside like husk after collecting the grain.


Foolish indeed is the man, who living on the banks of the Ganga digs a little well to drink water'.
So is the man who begs of God material objects.
The Bhakta should be ready to stand up and say:
"I do not want anything from you, Lord, but if you need anything from me I am ready to give.
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WORK AND RENUNCIATION
D: Is it possible to enjoy samadhi while busy in worldly work?
M: The feeling 'I work' is the hindrance. Ask yourself who works?' Remember who you are. Then the work will not bind you; it will go on automatically. Make no effort either to work or to renounce; your effort is the bondage. What is destined to happen will happen.
If you are destined not to work, work cannot be had even if you hunt for it; if you are destined to work, you will not be able to avoid it; you will be forced to engage yourself in it. So, leave it to the higher power; you cannot renounce or retain as you choose.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


God of our Heart, God of our Realization, Make us aware of Your Light within all beings.
Grant us the wisdom to have profound gratitude for the privilege of experiencing life.
Reveal your Divinity through
Universal Laws so we will become true Mystics in the school of life.
So Mote It Be!
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Everyone appears as buddhas in the eyes of the Buddha and everyone appears as pigs on the eye of the pig! (Buddhist saying). The world is experienced according to the state of one's mind.
When your mind is joyful and compassionate, the world is, too.
When you feel overwhelmed and busy, remember that you are not powerless.
When your mind rests, the world also rests.
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The Love you're dreaming of, is being dreamt by the Love that You are.
Seeking it outside of Yourself, obscures the true Love that You are.
Let the mind fade Inwardly and diminish in Your aware Presence.
Be fully that thought free Silence from which seeking arises.
Nowhere to go.
Nothing to lose.
Nothing to find.
Just Be.
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Open the door and step out, the path will be made visible.
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God is with you at every step. For those who undertake the journey, it is a beautiful and miraculous fact that God is ever with them. Where God Himself is, no harm can ever affect them.
Sometimes one gets entangled. But those who are absolutely one-pointed and their only aim is to attain God realization, God is ever with them.
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Guru means not an individual; the knower and witness of that principle, the consciousness,
which appears and disappears, is the Guru.
Who is a Sadguru?
He is that ever prevailing principle which witness appearance and disappearance of the unreal.
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Real surrender means doing nothing, unless prompted by the Guru. You step, so to say, aside and let your Guru live your life. You merely watch and wonder how easily he solves the problems which to you seemed insoluble.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj

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The greatest guru is your inner self.
Truly, he is the supreme teacher.
He alone can take you to your goal and he alone meets you at the end of the road.
Confide in him and you need no outer guru.

D.: I am always at your feet. Will Bhagavan give me some upadesa to follow? Otherwise how can I get the help, living six hundred miles away?
B.: The Sad-Guru is within.
D.: The Sad-Guru is necessary to guide me to understand that fact.
B.: The Sad-Guru is within you.
D.: I want a visible Guru.
B.: That visible Guru says that he is within.

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The Absolute can be reached by Absolute Devotion Only.
Don't be Half-hearted!
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How can the mind which has itself created the world accept it as unreal?
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Q: How to get rid of the mind?
Ramana: Is it the mind that wants to kill itself? The mind cannot kill itself.
Therefore, your duty is to find the true nature of the mind. Then you will know that there is no mind. When the Self is sought, the mind is nowhere. By remaining in the Self, you need not worry about the mind.
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Don't waste your time purifying the mind because mind can never be pure.
Even the desire to be pure is a trick of the mind.
And you need not drop the mind because it doesn't exist.
How can you drop something that doesn't exist?
Sri #Papaji
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It is not you who makes this choice for Freedom. It is Grace taking you where you must go for Freedom, the Satguru.
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Effort is necessary up to the state of Realisation. Even then, the Self should spontaneously become evident; otherwise happiness will not be complete.
Up to that state of spontaneity there must be effort in some form or another.
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The egoless 'I am' is not thought.
It is realisation.
The meaning or significance of I' is God.
The experience of 'I am' is to Be Still.
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The egoless mind is happy in deep, dreamless sleep.
Clearly therefore
Bliss and misery are
only modes of mind.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Real death is death of the ego.
Real birth is to dwell in one's natural state.
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The Guru's
Silence is more
Vast and emphatic then all the Sastras put fogather.
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Activity is weakness and consequently miserable;
passivity is strength and therefore blissful.
The dormant strength is not apparent
and therefore not availed of.
The cosmic mind,
manifesting in some rare being, is able to effect the linkage in others of the individual (weak) mind with the universal (strong) mind of the inner recess.
Such a rare being is called the GURU or
GOD in manifestation.
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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes,
and the grass grows by itself.
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Forget about getting, simply give; and I guarantee you, you will get much."
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Progress is for the mind and not for the Self.
The Self is ever perfect.
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God is only an idea in your mind. The Fact is you. The only thing you know for sure is: 'here and now I am'. Remove the 'here and now', the 'I am' remains, unassailable. The world exists in memory, memory comes into consciousnessi consciousness exists in awareness and awareness is the reflection of the light on the waves of existence.
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The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet.
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Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Remember you are the inner pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as awareness.
This is the secret.
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Your own mind is not on your side, on your back yes, but not on your side.
Don't wait for your mind to accept the Truth!
You must begin to know the difference between your mind and yourSelf.
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Do everything with a mind that lets go.
Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.
#AjahnChah
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When I was a novice, I could not understand why, if the world is filled with suffering, the Buddha has such a beautiful smile. Why isn't he disturbed by all the suffering?
Later I discovered that the Buddha has enough understanding, calmness, and strength; that is why the suffering does not overwhelm him. He is able to smile to suffering because he knows how to take care of it and to help transform it.
We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness, and strength so we can help transform the situation. The ocean of tears cannot drown us if karuna is there.
That is why the Buddha's smile is possible.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Stopping is the basic Buddhist practice of meditation. You stop running. You stop struggling.
You allow yourself to rest, to heal, to calm.
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To the ordinary man, even Buddha is ordinary.
But to a Buddha, everyone is a Buddha.
#HuiNeng
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As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.
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Empty yourself of everything.
Let the mind become still.
All things in the Universe rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.
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Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
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If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
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Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion.
They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
Autobiography of a Yogi
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Whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do. God is the sum total of everything, and His image is within you. He can do anything, and so can you, if you learn to identify yourself with His inexhaustible nature.
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You must exercise your will power. If you make up your mind and go forth like a flame, every obstacle in your path will be consumed.
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Now is the time for you to make the effort to know God. In meditation, again and again throw the bombs of your deep yearning against the bulwark of silence, until its walls are broken down and God is revealed. Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of Love which is in all.
The Heavenly Father can be known as cosmic love, cosmic light, cosmic bliss.
He is also infinite beauty. When we look at a rose, we shouldn't analyse too much, but rather concentrate on its beauty.
This is the way to know God as beauty.
And God is poesy. It is another expression of His beauty. He is the Infinite Poem, and the Joy we feel when we hear inspiring poems. Poetry itself is
"a thing of beauty and a joy forever." If we love God, we love poetry.
To establish God's kingdom on earth, we must follow the path of wisdom, beauty, and love. We must cultivate wisdom, and learn through our wisdom to love the beauty of God in all souls and in all things.
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Eternally we have been with God, in God, and immersed in nothing but God.
The Essence of the #BhagavadGita
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Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.
Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is the only moment.
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It is of no use to sit in a peaceful forest if our mind is lost in the city.
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I have arrived.
I am home.
My destination is in each step.
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As you conceive, so will you become. You, the Self, are the king, and Illusion is your servant.
Illusion is as per your
perception. The king experiences as he imagines.
Illusion means our idea. As are a person's concepts, accordingly does Maya bind him.


Whenever you stand alone, remind yourself that God had sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.
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Lose your soul in God's love.
I swear there is no other way...
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Do not let your heart get rusty with grief, and do not stay long with those who are not in the presence
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Love
is the religion
and the Universe is the book.
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Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
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He is always being merciful. Just to be able to understand that,
looking at Him one should wait. Kripa (Grace) is understood
when Chitta (mind) is purified.
#AnandamayiMa


Under the semblance of union and under the semblance of separation abides He, the Supreme Himself.
#AnandamayiMa
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Teach me, O Infinite Spirit! that whether I am awake or asleep, alert or daydreaming, living or dying, Thine all-protecting presence encircles me.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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When you have seen the Dream as a Dream, You have done all that needs be done..!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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127. Which Itself sees all, but which no one beholds, which illumines the intellect and the like, but which they cannot illumine. This is that.

128. By which' this universe is pervaded, but which nothing pervades, which shining, all this (universe) shines as Its reflection.This is That.

129. By whose very presence the body, the organs, mind, and intellect keep to their respective spheres of action, like servants!

130. By which everything from egoism down to the body, the sense-objects, and pleasure and the like, is known as palpably as a jar-for It is the essence of Eternal Knowledge!

#Vivekchudamani


You are the unchanging manifesting as the changefulness.
#Mooji
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When sense-objects are favourable it becomes! happy and it becomes miserable when the case is contrary So happiness and misery are characteristics of the egoism, and not of the ever blissful Atman.
#Vivekchudamani


You are not different than Existence, than Being.
See Being everywhere by not looking.
The Seeing is Being, not the objects seen.
#Papaji
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I Am a free man and am not attached to anything.
It's all illusion
and I am watching it all.
I do not deliberately do anything;
I just witness all of it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The world has only as much power over you
as you give it.
Rebel.
Go beyond duality.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover.
@ 81% С,
What you are, you must find out.
I can only tell you what you are not.
You are not of the world, you are not even in the world.
The world is not, you alone are.
You create the world in your imagination like a dream.
As you cannot separate the dream from yourself, so you cannot have an outer world independent of yourself.
You are independent, not the world.
Don't be afraid of a world you yourself have created.
Cease from looking for happiness and reality in a dream and you will wake up.
You need not know 'why' and 'how', there is no end to questions.
Abandon all desires, keep your mind silent and you shall discover.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You are not confined to your body; you are
everywhere.
The limitation is your
imagination.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Thoughts come and go.
Feelings come and go.
Find out what it is
that remains.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The degree of the absence of thoughts is the measure of your progress towards Self-realization.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Whatever this body is to do and whatever experiences it is to pass through was already decided when it came into existence.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Why do you worry about
life after death?
If you realize the present you will know everything.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The Sinner at the well

It was a summer evening, and we were all sitting outside in the open space by the well. Suddenly one of the visitors started weeping bitterly.

'I am a horrible sinner. For a long time I have been coming to you, but there is no change in me. Can I become pure at last? How long am I to wait? When I am here near you, I am good for a time. But when I leave this place, I become a beast again. You cannot imagine how bad I can be -- hardly a human being. Am I to remain a sinner forever?'

'Why do you come to me? What have I to do with you?' demanded Bhagavan. 'What is there between us that you should come here and weep and cry in front of me?'

The man started moaning and crying even more, as if his heart were breaking.

'All my hopes of salvation are gone. You were my last refuge and you say you have nothing to do with me! To whom shall I turn now? What am I to do? To whom am I to go?'

Bhagavan watched him for some time and said, 'Am I your Guru that I should be responsible for your salvation? Have I ever said that I am your Master?'

'If you are not my Master, then who is? And who are you, if not my Master? You are my Guru. You are my guardian angel. You must take pity me and release me from my sins!'

He started sobbing and crying again.
We all sat silent, overcome with pity. Only Bhagavan looked alert and matter-of-fact.

'If I am your Guru, what are my fees? Surely you should pay me for my services.'

'But you won't take anything,' cried the visitor. 'What can I give you?'

'Did I ever say that I don't take anything? And did you ever ask me what you can give me?'

'If you would take, then ask me. There is nothing I would not give you.'

'All right. Now I am asking. Give me. What will you give me?'

'Take anything. Everything I have is yours.'

'Then give me all the good you have done in this world.'

'What good could I have done? I have not a single virtue to my credit.'
'You have promised to give. Now give. Don't talk of your credit. Just give away all the good you have done in your past.'

'Yes, I shall give. But how does one give? Tell me how the giving is done and I shall give.'

'Say like this: "All the good I have done in the past I am giving away entirely to my Guru. Henceforth I have no merit from it nor have I any concern with it." Say it with your whole heart.'

'All right, Swami. "I am giving away to you all the good I have done so far if I have done any and all its good effects. I am giving it to you gladly, for you are my Master and you are asking me to give it all away to you.'

'But this is not enough,' said Bhagavan sternly.
'I gave you all I have and all you asked me to give. I have nothing more to give.'
'No, you have. Give me all your sins.'

The man looked wildly at Bhagavan, terror-stricken.
'You do not know, Swami, what you are asking for. If you knew, you would not ask me. If you take over my sins, your body will rot and burn. You do not know me, you do not know my sins. Please do not ask me for my sins.'
He wept bitterly.

'I shall look after myself. Don't you worry about me,' said Bhagavan. 'All I want from you is your sins.'

For a long time, the bargain would not go through. The man refused to part with his sins. But Bhagavan was adamant.
'Either give me your sins along with your merits or keep both and don't think of me as your Master."

In the end, the visitor's scruples broke down and he declared, 'Whatever sins I have done, they are no longer mine. All of them and their results, too, belong to Ramana.'

Bhagavan seemed to be satisfied. 'From now on there is no good nor bad in you. You are just pure. Go and do nothing, either good or bad. Remain yourself. Remain what you are.'
A great peace fell over the man and over us all. No one knows what happened to the fortunate visitor, for he was never seen in the ashram again. He might have had no further need to come.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Did Buddha awaken by following the Buddha Dharma? Did Jesus awaken following the Gospel? Did Ramana awaken following Vedanta Dharma? No. Find what they found.
It is closer than your own breath, nearer than the beat of your innocent heart. #RichardYoung
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THE PAST IS ALREADY GONE, THE FUTURE IS NOT YET HERE. THERE'S ONLY ONE MOMENT FOR YOU TO LIVE, AND THAT IS THE PRESENT MOMENT. #GautamaBuddha
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Abide as That in which there is no debate, no success or failure, no word or its meaning, no speech, no difference between the soul and the Supreme Being, none of the manifold causes and consequences - and be always happy, without the least trace of thought.
#RibhuGita


Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
Shine.
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Look, one cannot be sure of the next breath.
Keep this in mind and meditate on Him.
Your lifetime is fast slipping away and with every breath your lifespan is decreasing.
#AnandamayiMa
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Like Sunlight,
He Pervades Everything.
#AnandamayiMa
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The cave you
fear to enter may hold the light you seek.
#Rumi
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Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.
#Rumi
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Your heart is the size of an ocean.
Go, find yourself in its hidden depths.
#Rumi
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Since 'l' is our real Guru, the Guru may be said to reside in our Heart.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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#SriRamanaMaharshi
Being aware of the Self
is the real meditation.


Q: Sri Bhagavan's silence is itself a powerful force. It brings about a certain peace of mind in us.
Maharshi: Silence is never-ending speech.
Vocal speech obstructs the other speech of silence. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. The silence of Dakshinamurti removed the doubts of the four sages. Mouna Vyakhya prakatita tattvam means the truth expounded by silence.
Silence is said to be exposition. Silence is so potent.
For vocal speech, organs of speech are necessary and they precede speech. But the other speech lies even beyond thought. It is in short transcendent speech or unspoken words.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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Meditation differs according to the degree of advancement of the seeker. If one is fit for it, one might directly hold the thinker; and the thinker will automatically sink into his source, namely Pure Consciousness.
If one cannot directly hold the thinker, one must meditation on God; and in due course the same individual will have become sufficiently pure to hold the thinker and sink into absolute Being.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


A visitor asked: " Sri Bhagavan! When I heard of you, a strong desire arose in me to see you. Why should it be so ?
Bhagawan - The desire arose in the same way as the body arises to the Self.
Devotee - What is the purpose of life ?
Bhagwan - To seek to know the significance of life is itself the result of good karma in the past births. Those who do not seek such knowledge are simply wasting their lives.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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The desire to find the Self will be surely fulfilled, provided you want nothing else. But you must be honest with yourself and really want nothing else.
#NisargadattaMaharaj
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few.
#ShunryuSuzuki
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In every moment you only have one real choice: to be aware of the Self or to identify with the body and the mind.
#AnnamalaiSwami


Your Essence is
Gold Hidden In Dust.
#Rumi
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The purpose of a rose is to be a rose.
Your purpose is to be yourself. You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else. You are
wonderful just as you are.
#ThichNhatHanh
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Evcrything that happens happens at the only possible time it can happen and it is always at exactly the right time.
#WuWei
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I searched for God and found only myself.
I searched for myself and found only God.
#Rumi
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Leave your existence to existence. Stop caring for yourself so much and let the universe care for you; it is the best mother. There has to be some trust, not just belief, because trust is intimate.
#Mooji
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
#Rumi
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Friendliness is a quality not a relationship.
It has nothing to do with anybody else; it is basically your inner quality.
You can be friendly even when you are alone.
#OSHO
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A lover is never alone.
His Beloved is with him inside his soul... forever!
#Rumi


Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him. #Rumi


Don't seek, don't search, don't ask. don't knock. don't demand -relax.
If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, You start vibrating with it.
#osho
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Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgment.
#TsoknyiRinpoche
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Step into the fire of self-discovery.
This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not.
#Mooji
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The light which shines in the eye is really the light from the heart.
#Rumi
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The study of scriptures is useless so long as the highest truth is unknown, and it is equally useless when the highest truth has already been known.
#Vivekachudamani
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The Only Option, is to keep quiet... and see what happens.!
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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Trying to understand consciousness with your mind is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle.
#Mooji
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Nothing ever existed is the ultimate Truth.
#Papaji
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Why get into trouble? It's enough!
Everything is Here: Happiness, Beauty, Love! Whatever you call it, it is full of everything! Whatever you think, so it becomes because it is Consciousness and everything is possible in Consciousness.
You have created all these manifestations, all these waves in the ocean. You are so capable, so vast, so full, so complete, so conscious. You can create all of this so why suffer? Emptiness is never affected by appearances in Emptiness. The ocean does not suffer when a wave rises. It does not even suffer when a wave falls. Let he waves dance and let hem enjoy. Just stay Here and see only Love and Beauty and Happiness. This is the Ultimate Understanding. It does not need any thinking or any process or any meditations.
You are Limitlessness, Fathomlessness, Vastness: who wil disturb this Vastness?
Where will you run out so that you are no longer Here? You are not limited! Just stay as you are, do not start from anywhere and do not go anywhere, and do not activate a thought.
#Papaji
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The Power that created you has created the world as well.
If it can take care of you, it can similarly take care of the world also ... if God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.
#SriRamanaMaharshi
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If you are guided by the Divine
Consciousness, then even when the future seems absolutely black, everything ultimately will come out all right. When God guides you, you cannot fail.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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D: How can the rebellious mind be made calm and tranquil?
M: Either see its source so that it may disappear, or surrender yourself so that it may be struck down.
Self-surrender is the same as Self-knowledge, and either of them necessarily implies self-control. The ego submits only when it recognises the Higher Power. #SriRamanaMaharshi


Your karma follows you like a faithful shadow, so be mindful in your thoughts and actions.
#Buddha
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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.
#ParamahansaYogananda
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Once when the satsang was over, an old man was taking leave. "It is getting late," he said, "I must be going home."
"Late indeed," agreed Anandamayi, "there you are right; but go to your real home, not to the dharmasala pilgrim hostel."
"I am not staying in any dharmasala, I have my own house here," he replied.
She shook her head and smiled: "Do you call that home? You won't be able to stay there for ever. Your days are numbered and when your time is up you will have to leave.
I call it dharmasala. There are rules and regulations; you may remain for a while but then you have to quit. This body tells you to find your real home from which nobody can drive you out, which is not of this world. Dig deep and unearth your real wealth, find your real home in God, who is your own Self.
#SriSriMaaAnandamayi


The love of God alone is desirable for a human being. He who has brought you forth, He who is your Father, Mother, Friend, Beloved and Lord, who has given you everything, has nourished you with ambrosia streaming from His own being - by whatever name you invoke Him - that name you should bear in mind at all times.
#SriSriMaaAnandamayi
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Who sees all beings in his own self and his own self in all beings, Loses all Fear.
#Upanishads


He who is Purusha is also Prakriti; He who is Brahman is also Sakti. He is called Purusha or Brahman when He is inactive, that is to say, when He ceases to create, preserve, or destroy, and He is called Sakti or Prakriti when He engages in those activities. But He who is Brahman is none other than Sakti; He who is Purusha has verily become Prakriti. Water is water whether it moves or is still. A snake is a snake whether it wriggles along or stays still and coiled up.
#SriRamakrishnaParamhansa


You are always in Love, and you can only Love yourself,
the changless one in which even space is.
There is no beginning, no middle, and no end to it.
Only Love is worth loving and this is your own Self.
#Papaji
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The whole universe is experienced in the consciousness "I Am".
If that is not there, what else can ever exist?
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


GIVE YOUR MIND FULL ATTENTION

Q: I may go on telling myself: 'I am not the mind, I am not concerned with its problems,' but the mind remains and its problems remain just as they were. Now, please do not tell me that it is because I am not earnest enough and I should be more earnest! I know it and admit it and only ask you -- how is it done?
M: At least you are asking! Good enough, for a start. Go on pondering, wondering, being anxious to find a way. Be conscious of yourself, watch your mind, give it your full attention.
Don't look for quick results; there may be none within your noticing. Unknown to you, your psyche will undergo a change, there will be more clarity in your thinking, charity in your feeling, purity in your behavior. You need not aim at these -- you will witness the change all the same. For, what you are now is the result of inattention and what you become will be the fruit of attention.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


I see what you too could see, here and now, but for the wrong focus of your attention. You give no attention to your Self. Your mind is all with things, people and ideas, never with your Self. Bring your Self into focus, become aware of your own existence.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


The world recreates itself out of itself.
It is an endless process, the transitory begetting the transitory.
It is your ego that makes you think that there must be a doer.
You create a God to your own image, however dismal the image.
Through the film of your mind you project a world and also a God to give it a cause and a purpose.
It is all imagination
---- step out of it.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj
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You don't need to worry. My teachings are already planted in your heart. They will sprout in due course. Simply have faith. There is no need to worry.
#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


Each day you gain satisfaction by doing many activities, but this is not genuine happiness. The experience of inner freedom is true joy, a joy that does not depend on anything. Each day you get involved in various things to make life more tolerable, calling that state one of pleasure.
When such activities end, however, life is once again intolerable. Know that our true identity is the Self whose nature is authentic joy. The faithful enjoy this kind of happiness, and need not do anything else to attain satisfaction, for this joy is of the Self and is beyond bodily pleasure. The body needs attention and activities for pleasure, but That, which is joy itself, needs nothing at all.

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Without body-mind
there is no experience at all.

Without mind there is no pain
and no need for any pleasure.

Without mind there is
no witnessing of anything.

In order to terminate the mind,
one has to worship the feet of the Guru.

Always be aware of your consciousness,
which is now listening.

It is the feet of Sadguru.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


M: When you realise that the distinction between inner and outer is in the mind only, you are no longer afraid.

Q: Such realisation comes and goes with me.
I have not yet reached the immutability of absolute completeness.

M: Well, as long as you believe so, you must go on with your sadhana, to disperse the false idea of not being complete.

Sadhana removes the super-impositions.

When you realise yourself as less than a point in space and time, something too small to be cut and too short-lived to be killed, then, and then only, all fear goes.

When you are smaller than the point of a needle, then the needle cannot pierce you -- you pierce the needle!

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


THE TASK SEEMS HOPELESS UNTIL SUDDENLY ALL BECOMES CLEAR AND SIMPLE AND SO WONDERFULLY EASY...

Q: The ‘I am’ is the foundation of all experience. What you are trying to describe must also be an experience, limited and transitory. You speak of yourself as immutable. I hear the sound of the word, I remember its dictionary meaning, but the experience of being immutable I do not have. How can I break through the barrier and know personally, intimately, what it means to be immutable?

Nisargadatta Maharaj: The word itself is the bridge. Remember it, think of it, explore it, go round it, look at it from all directions, dive into it with earnest perseverance: endure all delays and disappointments till suddenly the mind turns round, away from the word, towards the reality beyond the word.

It is like trying to find a person knowing his name only. A day comes when your enquiries bring you to him and the name becomes reality.

Words are valuable, for between the word and its meaning there is a link and if one investigates the word assiduously, one crosses beyond the concept into the experience at the root of it.

As a matter of fact, such repeated attempts to go beyond the words is called meditation. Sadhana is but a persistent attempt to cross over from the verbal to the non-verbal.

The task seems hopeless until suddenly all becomes clear and simple and so wonderfully easy.

But, as long as you are interested in your present way of living, you will shirk from the final leap into the unknown.

#SriNisargadattaMaharaj


True happiness cannot be found in things that change and pass away.
Pleasure and pain alternate inexorably.
Happiness comes from the self and can be found in the self only. Find your real self (swarupa) and all else will come with it.
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If the unripe mind does not feel His Grace,
it does not mean God's Grace is absent.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Disregarding one's superimposed attributes (upadhis) and knowing oneself is itself knowing God, since God shines as oneself.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Mr. Ekanatha Rao: What is sphurana (a kind of indescribable but palpable sensation in the heart center)?

M.: Sphurana is felt on several occasions, such as in fear, excitement, etc. Although it is always and all over, yet it is felt at a particular center and on particular occasions. It is also associated with antecedent causes and confounded with the body. Whereas, it is all alone and pure; it is the Self. If the mind be fixed on the sphurana and one senses it continuously and automatically it is realization.

Again sphurana is the foretaste of Realization. It is pure. The subject and object proceed from it. If the man mistakes himself for the subject, objects must necessarily appear different from him. They are periodically withdrawn and projected, creating the world and the subject’s enjoyment of the same. If, on the other hand, the man feels himself to be the screen on which the subject and object are projected there can be no confusion, and he can remain watching their appearance and disappearance without any perturbation to the Self.
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A devotee who asked for Maharshi’s Grace and was told, “You have it”, felt a throb in the center of his chest, like a slight pressure; he felt happy and extraordinarily peaceful. He asked Maharshi about it later and Maharshi said, “Hold that sensation firmly whenever the mind is distracted. Your mantra-saying is no more necessary. It is called sphurana. It is felt on several occasions such as fear, excitement etc. It is really always there, felt at the heart center. It is associated with antecedent causes and usually confounded with the body. Really it is alone and pure; it is the Self. If the mind be fixed on it and the man senses it continuously and automatically, it is realization. For now it is a foretaste of realization.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Q: Does Bhagavan give diksha [initiation]?

Maharshi: Mouna [silence] is the best and the most potent diksha. That was practised by Sri Dakshinamurti. Initiation by touch, look, etc., are all of a lower order. Silent initiation changes the hearts of all.
Dakshinamurti observed silence when the disciples approached him. That is the highest form of initiation. It includes the other forms.
There must be subject-object relationship established in the other dikshas. First the subject must emanate and then the object.
Unless these two are there how is the one to look at the other or touch him? Mouna diksha is the most perfect; it comprises looking, touching and teaching. It will purify the individual in every way and establish him in the reality.
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Knowledge means
the overcoming of obstacles which obstruct the revelation of the Eternal Truth
that the Self is the same as Brahman.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The master is within; meditation is meant
to remove the ignorant idea that he is only outside.
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The ego's death is the play of grace, the blossoming of bliss.
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'I' is the name of God.
It is the first and greatest of all mantras.
Even OM is second to it.
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Solitude is everywhere.
The individual is always solitary. Our business is to find it within, not to seek it outside ourselves.
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In the company of sages, attachment vanishes;
and with attachment, illusion.
Freed from illusion, one attains stability, and thence liberation while yet alive.
Sri Ramana
Seek therefore
the company of sages.
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There is only one state, that of
consciousness or awareness or existence.
The three states of waking, dream and sleep cannot be real. They simply come and go.
The real will always exist.
The l or existence that alone persists in all the three states is real.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


The moment the ego-self tries to know itself, it changes its character; it begins to partake less and less of the Jada (inert nature) in which it is absorbed, and more and more of the Consciousness of the Self, the Atman.
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There is a class of people who want to know all about their future or their past.
They ignore the present.
The load from the past forms the present misery.
The attempt to recall the past is mere waste of time.
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Deep sleep is only the state of non-duality.
Can the difference between the individual and Universal souls persist there?
Sleep implies forgetfulness of all differences: This alone constitutes happiness. See how carefully people prepare their beds to gain that happiness.
Soft cushions, pillows and all the rest are meant to induce sound sleep, that is to say to end wakefulness. And yet the soft bed, etc., are of no use in the state of deep sleep itself. The implication is that all efforts are meant only to end ignorance.
They have no use after realisation.
#SriRamanaMaharshi


Education
learned ignorance.
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