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Apart From Thoughts, There Is No Independent Entity Called The World. In Deep Sleep There Are No Thoughts, And There Is No World. In The States Of Waking And Dream, There Are Thoughts, And There Is A World Also. Just As The Spider Emits The Thread (of The Web) Out Of Itself And Again Withdraws It Into Itself, Likewise The Mind Projects The World Out Of Itself And Again Resolves It Into Itself.

-Ramana Maharshi

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Apart From Thoughts, There

Ramana Maharshi

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Apart From Thoughts, There Is No Independent Entity Called The World. In Deep Sleep There Are No Thoughts, And There Is No World. In The States Of Waking And Dream, There Are Thoughts, And There Is A World Also. Just As The Spider Emits The Thread (of The Web) Out Of Itself And Again Withdraws It Into Itself, Likewise The Mind Projects The World Out Of Itself And Again Resolves It Into Itself.

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Time Is Only An Idea. There Is Only The Reality. Whatever You Think It Is, It Looks Like That.

The Very Fact That We Wish For Liberation Shows That Freedom From All Bondage Is Our Real Nature. It Is Not To Be Freshly Acquired. All That Is Necessary Is To Get Rid Of The False Notion That We Are Bound.

The Macrocosm Is In Its Entirety In The Body. The Body Is In Its Entirety In The Heart. Therefore Heart Is The Summarised Form Of All The Macrocosm.

One Must Realise His Self In Order To Open The Store Of Unalloyed Happiness.

There Is Nothing New To Gain. On The Other Hand A Man Must Lose His Ignorance. That Is All.

He Who Has Realized The Self In The Heart Has Transcended The Dualities And Is Never Perplexed.

I See Only What You See, But I Notice What I See.

The Greatest Obstacle To Enlightenment Is Getting Past Your Delusion That You Are Not Already Enlightened.

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

Seeing God Without Seeing The Self, One Sees Only Mental Image. Only He Who Has Seen Himself Has Seen God, Since He Has Lost Individuality, And Now Sees Nothing But God.

The Place Where Even The Slightest Trace Of The 'i' Does Not Exist, Alone Is Self.

Your Own Self-realization Is The Greatest Service You Can Render The World.

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To Know One's Self Is To Be Blissful Always.

Self Realization

What Message Is Needed When Heart Speaks To Heart?

Without Knowing The Knower, All The Knowledge That One Gathers Cannot Be Valid.

We Are In Our Self. We Are Not In The World.

The Normal Self Is The Mind. The Mind Is With Limitations. But Pure Consciousness Is Beyond Limitations, And Is Reached By Investigation Into The "i."

See Who Is The Subject; And This Inquiry Leads You To Pure Consciousness Beyond The Subject.

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If The Ego Rises, All Else Will Also Rise; If It Subsides, All Else Will Also Subside.

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Dive Deep Into The Chambers Of Your Heart. Find Out The Real, Infinite 'i'. Rest There Peacefully For Ever And Become Identical With The Supreme Self.

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Silence Is Also Conversation.

Surrender Is To Give Oneself Up To The Original Cause Of One's Being.

Time Is Only An Idea. There Is Only The Reality. Whatever You Think It Is, It Looks Like That. If You Call It Time, It Is Time. If You Call It Existence, It Is Existence, And So On. After Calling It Time, You Divide It Into Days And Nights, Months, Years, Hours, Minutes, Etc. Time Is Immaterial For The Path Of Knowledge.

Under Whatever Name Or Form We Worship It, It Leads Us On To Knowledge Of The Nameless, Formless Absolute. Yet, To See One's True Self In The Absolute, To Subside Into It And Be One With "it, This Is The True Knowledge Of The Truth.

Truth Burns Up All Karma And Frees You From All Births.

The Self Is The One Reality That Always Exists, And It Is By The Light Of The Self That All Other Things Are Seen.

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.

Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By The Mind. Therefore The Mind Is Subtler Than The Atom. That Which Is Behind The Mind, Namely The Individual Soul, Is Subtler Than The Mind.

By Constantly Keep One's Attention On The Source, The Ego Is Dissolved In That Source Like A Salt-doll In The Sea.

Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By The Mind.

Grace Is Within You. If It Were External, It Would Be Useless.

The Enemy Hates The Ego, Which The Seeker Wants To Kill; Thus, Like The Anvil To The Goldsmith, He Is Actually A Friend.

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.

Nobody Doubts That He Exists, Though He May Doubt The Existence Of God. If He Finds Out The Truth About Himself And Discovers His Own Source, This Is All That Is Required.

For Those Who Have Obtained Unobstructed Knowledge Of Self, The World Is Seen Merely As A Bondage Causing Imagination.

You Do Not Like To Suffer Yourself. How Can You Inflict Suffering On Others?

Grace Is Ever Present. All That Is Necessary Is That You Surrender To It.

By Happy Fraternity Amongst Themselves, The Embodied Beings Get The Supreme Peace. Then All This Earth Shines Like One House. When The Men, The Embodied Beings Treat Each Other With Equal Respect And Have Good Brotherly Feelings Amongst Themselves, Great Peace And Harmony Abound. Then All This Earth Shines Like One House. The Whole World Shines Like The One Dwelling House Of The Entire Human Family.

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