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Every Living Being Longs Always To Be Happy, Untainted By Sorrow; And Everyone Has The Greatest Love For Himself, Which Is Solely Due To The Fact That Happiness Is His Real Nature. Hence, In Order To Realize That Inherent And Untainted Happiness, Which Indeed He Daily Experiences When The Mind Is Subdued In Deep Sleep, It Is Essential That He Should Know Himself. For Obtaining Such Knowledge The Inquiry 'who Am I?' In Quest Of The Self Is The Best Means.

-Ramana Maharshi

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Every Living Being Longs

Ramana Maharshi

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Every Living Being Longs Always To Be Happy, Untainted By Sorrow; And Everyone Has The Greatest Love For Himself, Which Is Solely Due To The Fact That Happiness Is His Real Nature. Hence, In Order To Realize That Inherent And Untainted Happiness, Which Indeed He Daily Experiences When The Mind Is Subdued In Deep Sleep, It Is Essential That He Should Know Himself. For Obtaining Such Knowledge The Inquiry 'who Am I?' In Quest Of The Self Is The Best Means.

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If There Is Anything Besides The Self There Is Reason To Fear? Who Sees The Second? First, The Ego Arises And Sees Objects As External. If The Ego Does Not Rise, The Self Alone Exists And There Is No Second.

The Source Of The Ego Is God.

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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.

The State Of Liberated Being Can Be Reached Only By "dying"; But (this) Dying Does Not Consist In Destruction Of The Body; One Should Understand That True Death Is The Extinction Of The Ideas "i" And "mine."

Our Identification With The Mind And Body Is The Chief Reason For Our Failure To Know Our Self As We Truly Are.

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Non-action Is Unceasing Activity. The Sage Is Characterized By Eternal And Intense Activity. His Stillness Is Like The Apparent Stillness Of A Fast Rotating Gyroscope.

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That Which Rises And Sinks Is Made Up Of What It Rises From. The Finality Of The Universe Is The God Arunachala. Meditating On Him Or On The Seer, The Self, There Is A Mental Vibration 'i' To Which All Are Reduced. Tracing The Source Of 'i', The Primal 'i-i' Alone Remains Over, And It Is Inexpressible. The Seat Of Realisation Is Within And The Seeker Cannot Find It As An Object Outside Him. That Seat Is Bliss And Is The Core Of All Beings. Hence It Is Called The Heart. The Only Useful Purpose Of The Present Birth Is To Turn Within And Realise It. There Is Nothing Else To Do.

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Forgetfulness Of Your Real Nature Is True Death; Remembrance Of It Is Rebirth.

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.

Every Living Being Longs Always To Be Happy, Untainted By Sorrow; And Everyone Has The Greatest Love For Himself, Which Is Solely Due To The Fact That Happiness Is His Real Nature. Hence, In Order To Realize That Inherent And Untainted Happiness, Which Indeed He Daily Experiences When The Mind Is Subdued In Deep Sleep, It Is Essential That He Should Know Himself. For Obtaining Such Knowledge The Inquiry 'who Am I?' In Quest Of The Self Is The Best Means.

Such Happiness Is Relative And Is Better Called Pleasure Or Satisfaction.

3. 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.

You And I Are The Same. What I Have Done Is Surely Possible For All. You Are The Self Now And Can Never Be Anything Else. Throw Your Worries To The Wind, Turn Within And Find Peace.

Meditation Applies The Brakes To The Mind.

Meditation Practice

The Mind Of One Meditating On A Single Object Becomes One-pointed. And One-pointedness Of Mind Leads To Abidance In The Self. Real Attainment Is To Be Fully Conscious, To Be Aware Of Surroundings And The People Around, To Move Among Them All, But Not To Merge Consciousness In The Environment. One Should Remain In Inner Independent Awareness.

There Must Be A Subject To Know The Good And Evil. Thatsubject Is The Ego.

Nearly 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.

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.

We Are So Engrossed With The Objects, Or Appearances Revealed By The Light, That We Pay No Attention To The Light.

That Which Is Not Present In Deep Dreamless Sleep Is Not Real

Dreamless Sleep

Is It The World That Says I Am Real, Or Is It You?

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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