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...bliss Is Not Something To Be Got. On The Other Hand You Are Always Bliss. This Desire [for Bliss] Is Born Of The Sense Of Incompleteness. To Whom Is This Sense Of Incompleteness? Enquire. In Deep Sleep You Were Blissful. Now You Are Not So. What Has Interposed Between That Bliss And This Non-bliss? It Is The Ego. Seek Its Source And Find You Are Bliss.

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...bliss Is Not Something To Be Got. On The Other Hand You Are Always Bliss. This Desire [for Bliss] Is Born Of The Sense Of Incompleteness. To Whom Is This Sense Of Incompleteness? Enquire. In Deep Sleep You Were Blissful. Now You Are Not So. What Has Interposed Between That Bliss And This Non-bliss? It Is The Ego. Seek Its Source And Find You Are Bliss.

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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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No One Succeeds Without Effort... Those Who Succeed Owe Their Success To Perseverance.

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

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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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It Is False To Speak Of Realization. What Is There To Realize? The Real Is As It Is Always. We Are Not Creating Anything New Or Achieving Something Which We Did Not Have Before. The Illustration Given In Books Is This. We Dig A Well And Create A Huge Pit. The Space In The Pit Or Well Has Not Been Created By Us. We Have Just Removed The Earth Which Was Filling The Space There. The Space Was There Then And Is Also There Now. Similarly We Have Simply To Throw Out All The Age-long Sanskaras [innate Tendencies] Which Are Inside Us. When All Of Them Have Been Given Up, The Self Will Shine Alone.

Your Duty Is To Be, And Not To Be This Or That. I Am That I Am Sums Up The Whole Truth; The Method Is Summarized In Be Still.

Meditation Practice

Self Realization

Having Set One's Family In Consonance With The Community, He Should Make His Family Prosperous To Ensure The Prosperity Of The Community.

Your True Nature Is That Of Infinite Spirit. The Feeling Of Limitation Is The Work Of The Mind.

There Are No Impediments To Meditation. The Very Thought Of Such Obstacles Is The Greatest Impediment.

How Does One Get Rid Of Fear? Ramana: What Is Fear? It Is Only A Thought. If There Is Anything Besides The Self There Is Reason To Fear. Who Sees Things Separate From The Self? First The Ego Arises And Sees Objects As External. If The Ego Does Not Rise, The Self Alone Exists And There Is Nothing External. For Anything External To Oneself Implies The Existence Of The Seer Within. Seeking It There Will Eliminate Doubt And Fear. Not Only Fear, All Other Thoughts Centred Round The Ego Will Disappear Along With It.

There Is Neither Past Nor Future. There Is Only The Present. Yesterday Was The Present To You When You Experienced It, And Tomorrow Will Be Also The Present When You Experience It. Therefore, Experience Takes Place Only In The Present, And Beyond Experience Nothing Exists.

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

What Comes Will Also Go. What Always Is Will Alone Remain.

The Degree Of Freedom From Unwanted Thoughts And The Degree Of Concentration On A Single Thought Are The Measures To Gauge Spiritual Progress.

The Grace Of The Guru Is Like An Ocean. If One Comes With A Cup He Will Only Get A Cupful. It Is No Use Complaining Of The Niggardliness Of The Ocean. The Bigger The Vessel The More One Will Be Able To Carry. It Is Entirely Up To Him.

As You Are, So Is The World.

By The Inquiry 'who Am I?'. The Thought 'who Am I?' Will Destroy All Other Thoughts, And Like The Stick Used For Stirring The Burning Pyre, It Will Itself In The End Get Destroyed. Then, There Will Arise Self-realization.

If You Observe Awareness Steadily, This Awareness Itself Becomes The Guru That Will Reveal The Truth.

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

Aim High, Aim At The Highest, And All Lower Aims Are Thereby Achieved. It Is Looking Below On The Stormy Sea Of Differences That Makes You Sink. Look Up, Beyond These And See The One Glorious Real, And You Are Saved.

Misery Does Not Exist In Reality But Only In Mere Imagination.

The Inquiry "who Am I" Turns The Mind Introvert And Makes It Calm.

The Sage Has No Thinking Mind And Therefore There Are No ‘others’ For Him.

The Self Is Here And Now, It Is The Only Reality. There Is Nothing Else.

We Dig A Well And Create A Huge Pit. The Space In The Pit Or Well Has Not Been Created By Us. We Have Just Removed The Earth Which Was Filling The Space There. The Space Was There Then And Is Also There Now.

The 'i' Casts Off The Illusion Of The 'i' And Yet Remains 'i'. Such Is The Paradox Of Self-realization. The Realized Do Not See Any Paradox In It. Consider The Case Of The Worshipper. He Approaches God And Prays To Be Absorbed In Him. He Then Surrenders Himself In Faith And By Concentration. And What Remains Afterwards? In The Place Of The Original 'i', Self-surrender Leaves A Residuum Of God In Which The 'i' Is Lost. That Is The Highest Form Of Devotion Or Surrender And The Peak Of Detachment.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

Your Duty Is To Be, And Not To Be This Or That.

Meditation Practice

Self Realization

Because Truth Is Exceedingly Subtle And Serene, The Bliss Of The Self Can Manifest Only In A Mind Rendered Subtle And Steady By Assiduous Meditation.

There Is A State When Words Cease And Silence Prevails.

Grace Is Not Something Outside Or You.. In Fact, Your Very Desire For Grace Is Due To Grace That Is Already Working In You.

You Are The Supreme Being, And Yet Thinking Yourself To Be Separate From It, You Strive To Become United With It. What Is Stranger Than This?

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