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How To Get Rid Of The Mind? Is It The Mind That Wants To Kill Itself? The Mind Cannot Kill Itself. So Your Business Is To Find The Real Nature Of The Mind. Then You Will Know That There Is No Mind. When The Self Is Sought, The Mind Is Nowhere. Abiding In The Self, One Need Not Worry About The Mind.

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How To Get Rid Of The Mind? Is It The Mind That Wants To Kill Itself? The Mind Cannot Kill Itself. So Your Business Is To Find The Real Nature Of The Mind. Then You Will Know That There Is No Mind. When The Self Is Sought, The Mind Is Nowhere. Abiding In The Self, One Need Not Worry About The Mind.

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Love Is Verily The Heart Of All Religions.

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.

The Question 'who Am I?' Is Not Really Meant To Get An Answer, The Question 'who Am I?' Is Meant To Dissolve The Questioner.

The Self Is Known To Every One But Not Clearly. You Always Exist.

Grace Is Within You. Grace Is Your Self. Grace Is Not Something To Be Acquired From Others. If It Is External, It Is Useless. All That Is Necessary Is To Know Its Existence Is In You. You Are Never Out Of Its Operation.

This Perception Of Division Between The Seer And The Object That Is Seen, Is Situated In The Mind. For Those Remaining In The Heart, The Seer Becomes One With The Sight.

...the Lord Of The Universe Carries The Entire Burden Of This World. You Imagine You Do. You Can Hand All Your Burdens Over To His Care. Whatever You Have To Do, You Will Be Made An Instrument For Doing It At The Right Time. Do Not Think You Cannot Do It Unless You Have The Desire To Do It. Desire Does Not Give You The Strength For Doing. The Entire Strength Is The Lord's.

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.

Unless One Is Happy, One Cannot Bestow Happiness On Others.

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.

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?

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

Peace Is The Inner Nature Of Humankind. If You Find It Within Yourself, You Will Then Find It Everywhere.

You Have To Ask Yourself The Question 'who Am I?' This Investigation Will Lead In The End To The Discovery Of Something Within You Which Is Behind The Mind. Solve That Great Problem And You Will Solve All Other Problems.

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

A Man Does Not Have To Go And Find Where His Eyes Are In Order To See. The Heart Is There, Always Open To You, If You Care To Enter It, Always Supporting Your Movements, Although You May Be Unaware Of It. It Is Perhaps More Correct To Say That The Self Is The Heart. Really The Self Is The Centre And Is Everywhere Aware Of Itself As The Heart Or Self-awareness.

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.

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

Whenever A Thought Arises, Instead Of Trying Even A Little Either To Follow It Up Or To Fulfil It, It Would Be Better To First Enquire, "to Whom Did This Thought Arise?"

If The Mind Falls Asleep, Awaken It. Then If It Starts Wandering, Make It Quiet. If You Reach The State Where There Is Neither Sleep Nor Movement Of Mind, Stay Still In That, The Natural (real) State.

Beyond The Belief That Something Can Be Lost, There Is Nothing To Lose.

Nothing To Lose

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

Consciousness Is Indeed Always With Us. Everyone Knows 'i Am!' No One Can Deny His Own Being.

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.

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There Is Nothing Wrong With God's Creation. Mystery And Suffering Only Exist In The Mind.

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Wanting To Reform The World Without Discovering One's True Self Is Like Trying To Cover The World With Leather To Avoid The Pain Of Walking On Stones And Thorns. It Is Much Simpler To Wear Shoes.

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The Ultimate Truth Is So Simple; It Is Nothing More Than Being In One’s Natural, Original State.

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Dreamless Sleep

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

The World Is So Unhappy Because It Is Ignorant Of The True Self. Man’s Real Nature Is Happiness. Happiness Is Inborn In The True Self. Man’s Search For Happiness Is An Unconscious Search For His True Self. The True Self Is Imperishable; Therefore, When A Man Finds It, He Finds A Happiness Which Does Not Come To An End.

The Self Cannot Be Found In Books. You Have To Find It For Yourself, Within Yourself.

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.

That Is The Ego Which Rises And Sinks Periodically. But You Exist Always. That Which Lies Beyond The Ego Is Consciousness - The Self.

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

If You Approach The Ocean With A Cup, You Can Only Take Away A Cupful; If You Approach It With A Bucket You Can Take Away A Bucketful.

Does One Require Proof Of One's Own Being? Only Remain Aware Of Yourself And All Else Will Be Known.

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

Even In Intake, The One Steadfast Thought Is Said To Be The Natural State. Nirvikalpa Samadhi Will Result When The Sensory Objects Are Not Present.

Happiness Is Your Real Nature. You Identify With Yourself With The Body And Mind, Feel It's Limitations, And Suffer. Realize Your True Self In Order To Open The Store Of Happiness. That True Self Is The Reality, The Supreme Truth, Which Is The Self Of All The World You Now See, The Self Of All The Selves, The One Real, The Supreme, The Eternal Self - As Distinct From The Ego Or The Bodily Idea For The Self.

The Thing To Do Is To Concentrate On The Seer And Not On The Seen, Not On The Objects, But On The Light Which Reveals Them.

God Dwells In You, As You, And You Don't Have To 'do' Anything To Be God-realized Or Self-realized, It Is Already Your True And Natural State. Just Drop All Seeking, Turn Your Attention Inward, And Sacrifice Your Ego Mind To The One Self Radiating In The Heart Of Your Very Being. For This To Be Your Own Presently Lived Experience, Self-inquiry Meditation Is A Direct And Immediate Way.

All Are Seeing God Always. But They Do Not Know It.

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.

How To Get Rid Of The Mind? Is It The Mind That Wants To Kill Itself? The Mind Cannot Kill Itself. So Your Business Is To Find The Real Nature Of The Mind. Then You Will Know That There Is No Mind. When The Self Is Sought, The Mind Is Nowhere. Abiding In The Self, One Need Not Worry About The Mind.

Why Should We... Constantly Worry Ourselves... As To What Should Be Done And How, And What Should Not Be Done And How Not? We Know That The Train Carries All Loads, So After Getting On It Why Should We Carry Our Small Luggage On Our Head To Our Discomfort, Instead Of Putting It Down In The Train And Feeling At Ease?

'i Am' Is The Name Of God, God Is None Other Than The Self.

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 Experience Of Silence Alone Is The Real And Perfect Knowledge.

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.

Calmness Is The Criterion Of Spiritual Progress. Plunge The Purified Mind Into The Heart. Then The Work Is Over.

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

We See Only The Script And Not The Paper On Which The Script Is Written. The Paper Is There, Whether The Script Is On It Or Not. To Those Who Look Upon The Script As Real, You Have To Say That It Is Unreal - An Illusion - Since It Rests Upon The Paper. The Wise Person Looks Upon Both Paper And Script As One.

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