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If A Person Realises His Position And Stays In His Own Self, Things That Are To Happen Will Happen. Things That Are Not To Happen Will Not Happen. The Shakti That Is In The World, Is Only One. All These Troubles Arise If We Think That We Are Separate From That Shakti.

-Ramana Maharshi

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If A Person Realises

Ramana Maharshi

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If A Person Realises His Position And Stays In His Own Self, Things That Are To Happen Will Happen. Things That Are Not To Happen Will Not Happen. The Shakti That Is In The World, Is Only One. All These Troubles Arise If We Think That We Are Separate From That Shakti.

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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.

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The Master Is Within; Meditation Is Meant To Remove The Ignorant Idea That He Is Only Outside. If He Is A Stranger Whom You Await, He Is Bound To Disappear Also. What Is The Use Of A Transient Being Like That? But So Long As You Think You Are Separate Or That You Are The Body, An External Master Is Also Necessary And He Will Appear To Have A Body. When The Wrong Identification Of Oneself With The Body Ceases, The Master Will Be Found To Be None Other Than The Self.

Willpower Should Be Understood To Be The Strength Of The Mind, Which Makes It Capable Of Meeting Success Or Failure With Equanimity. It Is Not Synonymous With Certain Success. Why Should One's Attempts Always Be Attended By Success? Success Breeds Arrogance And Man's Spiritual Progress Is Thus Arrested. Failure, On The Other Hand, Is Beneficial, Inasmuch As It Opens His Eyes To His Limitations And Prepares Him To Surrender Himself. Self Surrender Is Synonymous With Eternal Happiness.

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Peace Can Reign Only Where There Is No Disturbance, And Disturbance Is Due To Thoughts That Arise In The Mind.

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

Why Should You Trouble Yourself About The Future? You Do Not Even Properly Know About The Present. Take Care Of The Present, The Future Will Take Care Of Itself.

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

There Is A State When Words Cease And Silence Prevails.

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.

The Experience Of Silence Alone Is The Real And Perfect Knowledge.

If You Go On Working With The Light Available, You Will Meet Your Master, As He Himself Will Be Seeking You.

When Your Real, Effortless, Joyful Grateful Nature Is Realized, It Will Not Be Inconsistent With The Ordinary Activities Of Life.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

Remove The Ego And Avidya (ignorance) Is Gone. Look For It, The Ego Vanishes And The Real Self Alone Remains.

If One Watches Whence The Notion 'i' Arises, The Mind Gets Absorbed There; That Is Tapas. When A Mantra Is Repeated, If One Watches Whence That Mantra Sound Arises, The Mind Gets Absorbed There; That Is Tapas.

Take No Notice Of The Ego And Its Activities, But See Only The Light Behind.

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

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.

Concentration Is Not Thinking Of One Thing. On The Contrary, It Is Excluding All Thoughts, Since All Thoughts Obstruct The Sense Of One's True Being. All Efforts Are To Be Directed Simply To Removing The Veil Of Ignorance. Concentrating The Mind Solely On The Self Will Lead To Happiness Or Bliss. Drawing In The Thoughts, Restraining Them And Preventing Them From Straying Outwards Is Called Detachment (vairagya). Fixing Them In The Self Is Spiritual Practice (sadhana). Concentrating On The Heart Is The Same As Concentrating On The Self. Heart Is Another Name For Self.

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.

Of All The Thoughts That Rise In The Mind, The Thought 'i' Is The First Thought.

You Are Awareness. Awareness Is Another Name For You. Since You Are Awareness There Is No Need To Attain Or Cultivate It. All That You Have To Do Is To Give Up Being Aware Of Other Things, That Is Of The Not-self. If One Gives Up Being Aware Of Them Then Pure Awareness Alone Remains, And That Is The Self.

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

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.

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What Exists In Truth Is The Self Alone. The World, The Individual Soul And God Are Appearances In It. Like Silver In Mother-of-pearl, These Three Appear At The Same Time And Disappear At The Same Time. The Self Is That Where There Is Absolutely No 'i Thought'. That Is Called 'stillness'. The Self Itself Is The World; The Self Itself Is 'i'; The Self Itself Is God; All Is Siva, The Self.

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?

Apart From The Body Does The World Exist? Has Anyone Seen The World Without The Body?

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

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.

Whatever Is Destined Not To Happen Will Not Happen, Try As You May. Whatever Is Destined To Happen Will Happen, Do What You May To Prevent It. This Is Certain. The Best Course, Therefore, Is To Remain Silent.

The Activity Affected By Causes Like Fainting, Sleep, Excessive Joy, Grief, Possession By Spirits, Fear Etc Goes To The Heart, Its Own Place.

When You Truly Feel This Equal Love For All, When Your Heart Has Expanded So Much That It Embraces The Whole Of Creation, You Will Certainly Not Feel Like Giving Up This Or That. You Will Simply Drop Off From Secular Life As A Ripe Fruit Drops From The Branch Of A Tree. You Will Feel That The Whole World Is Your Home.

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Happiness Is Your Nature. It Is Not Wrong To Desire It. What Is Wrong Is Seeking It Outside When It Is Inside.

If A Man Considers That He Is Born, He Cannot Avoid The Fear Of Death. Let Him Find Out If He Has Been Born Or If The Self Has Any Birth. He Will Discover That The Self Always Exists, That The Body That Is Born Resolves Itself Into Thought And That The Emergence Of Thought Is The Root Of All Mischief. Find From Where Thoughts Emerge. Then You Will Be Able To Abide In The Ever-present Inmost Self And Be Free From The Idea Of Birth Or The Fear Of Death.

Liberation Exists- And You Will Never Be Liberated.

If One Wants To Abide In The Thought-free State, A Struggle Is Inevitable. One Must Fight One's Way Through Before Regaining One's Original Primal State. If One Succeeds In The Fight And Reaches The Goal, The Enemy, Namely The Thoughts, Will All Subside In The Self And Disappear Entirely.

You Know That You Know Nothing. Find Out That Knowledge.

Remain Still, With The Conviction That The Self Shines As Everything Yet Nothing, Within, Without, And Everywhere.

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

The Man Who Has The Sense Of The Body Being Himself Cannot Possibly Worship God As Formless; Whatever Worship He Makes Will Be Worship In Form Alone, Not Otherwise.

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."

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

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

Engage Yourself In The Living Present. The Future Will Take Care Of Itself.

The More You Prune A Plant, The More It Grows. So Too The More You Seek To Annihilate The Ego, The More It Will Increase. You Should Seek The Root Of The Ego And Destroy It.

Have Faith In God And In Yourself; That Will Cure All. Hope For The Best, Expect The Best, Toil For The Best And Everything Will Come Right For You In The End.

Correcting Oneself Is Correcting The Whole World. The Sun Is Simply Bright. It Does Not Correct Anyone. Because It Shines, The Whole World Is Full Of Light. Transforming Yourself Is A Means Of Giving Light To The Whole World.

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.

We Are Always Peace. To Get Rid Of The Idea That We Are Not Peace Is All That Is Required.

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

It Is Within Your Competence To Think And Thus To Get Bound Or To Cease Thinking And Thus Be Free.

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

Yogas Chitta Vritti Nirodhah - (yoga Is To Check The Mind From Changing) - Which Is Acceptable To All. That Is Also The Goal Of All. The Method Is Chosen According To One's Own Fitness. The Goal For All Is The Same. Yet Different Names Are Given To The Goal Only To Suit The Process Preliminary To Reaching The Goal. Bhakti, Yoga, Jnana Are All The Same.

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.

Let Knowledge Be Guessed By The Sign Of Equality To All Beings.

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.

Happiness Is Not To Be Sought In Solitude Or In Busy Centers. It Is In The Self.

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

Turn Your Vision Inward And Then The Whole World Will Be Full Of The Supreme Spirit.

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.

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

From Where Does This "i" Arise? Seek For It Within; It Then Vanishes. This Is The Pursuit Of Wisdom. When The Mind Unceasingly Investigates Its Own Nature, It Transpires That There Is No Such Thing As Mind. This Is The Direct Path For All. The Mind Is Merely Thoughts. Of All Thoughts The Thought "i" Is The Root.

The End Of All Wisdom Is Love, Love, Love.

There Is Neither Past Nor Future. There Is Only The Present.

To Ask The Mind To Kill Itself Is Like Making The Thief The Policeman. He Will Go With You And Pretend To Catch The Thief, But Nothing Will Be Gained. So You Must Turn Inward And See Where The Mind Rises From, And Then It Will Cease To Exist.

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