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In Accordance With The Prarabdha Of Each, The One Whose Function It Is To Ordain Makes Each To Act. What Will Not Happen Will Never Happen, Whatever Effort One May Put Forth. And What Will Happen Will Not Fail To Happen, However Much One May Seek To Prevent It. This Is Certain. The Part Of Wisdom Therefore Is To Stay Quiet.

-Ramana Maharshi

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In Accordance With The Prarabdha Of Each, The One Whose Function It Is To Ordain Makes Each To Act. What Will Not Happen Will Never Happen, Whatever Effort One May Put Forth. And What Will Happen Will Not Fail To Happen, However Much One May Seek To Prevent It. This Is Certain. The Part Of Wisdom Therefore Is To Stay Quiet.

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

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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.

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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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Till You Reach The State Of Jnana And Thus Wake Out Of Maya You Must Do Social Service By Relieving Suffering Whenever You See It. But Even Then You Must Do It Without Ahankara, I.e., Without The Sense Of 'i Am The Doer', But With The Feeling 'i Am The Lord's Tool'.

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

The "i" Thought Is Said To Be The Sum Total Of All Thoughts. The Source Of The "i" Thought Has To Be Inquired Into.

There Is No Reaching The Self. If Self Were To Be Reached, It Would Mean That The Self Is Not Here And Now But That It Is Yet To Be Obtained. What Is Got Afresh Will Also Be Lost. So It Will Be Impermanent. What Is Not Permanent Is Not Worth Striving For. So I Say The Self Is Not Reached. You Are The Self; You Are Already That.

Instead Of Indulging In Mere Speculation, Devote Yourself Here And Now To The Search For The Truth That Is Ever Within You.

Sense-perceptions Can Only Be Indirect Knowledge, And Not Direct Knowledge. Only One's Own Awareness Is Direct Knowledge.

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

It Will Come All Right In The End. There Is The Steady Impulse Of Your Determination That Sets You On Your Feet Again After Every Downfall And Breakdown. Gradually The Obstacles Are All Overcome And Your Current Becomes Stronger. Everything Comes Right In The End. Steady Determination Is What Is Required.

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.

By Whatever Path You Go, You Will Have To Lose Yourself In The One. Surrender Is Complete Only When You Reach The Stage `thou Art All' And `thy Will Be Done'.

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

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

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

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

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.

There Is No Mind To Control If You Realise The Self. The Mind Having Vanished, The Self Shines Forth. In The Realised Man, The Mind May Be Active Or Inactive, The Self Remains For Him.

Whatever Be The Means Adopted, You Must At Last Return To The Self, So Why Not Abide As The Self Here And Now?

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The Fact Is That You Are Not The Body. The Self Does Not Move But The World Moves In It. You Are Only What You Are.

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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 May Go On Reading Any Number Of Books On Meditation. They Can Only Tell You ‘realize The Self’. The Self Cannot Be Found In Books. You Have To Find It For Yourself In Yourself.

The Mind Turned Inwards Is The Self; Turned Outwards, It Becomes The Ego And All The World. Cotton Made Into Various Clothes We Call By Various Names. Gold Made Into Various Ornaments, We Call By Various Names. But All The Clothes Are Cotton And All The Ornaments Gold. The One Is Real, The Many Are Mere Names And Forms.

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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Silence Is Never-ending Speech. Vocal Speech Obstructs The Other Speech Of Silence. In Silence One Is In Intimate Contact With The Surroundings. Language Is Only A Medium For Communicating One's Thoughts To Another. Silence Is Ever Speaking.

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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.

Once The Current Of Awareness Of The Self Is Set Afoot, It Becomes Everlasting And Continuous By Intensification.

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

You Are The Witness Of The Three Bodies: The Gross, The Subtle, And The Causal, And Of The Three Times: Past, Present And Future, And Also This Void. In The Story Of The Tenth Man, When Each Of Them Counted And Thought They Were Only Nine, Each One Forgetting To Count Himself, There Is A Stage When They Think One Is Missing And Do Not Know Who It Is; And That Corresponds To The Void. We Are So Accustomed To The Notion That All That We See Around Us Is Permanent And That We Are This Body, That When All This Ceases To Exist We Imagine And Fear That We Also Have Ceased To Exist.

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.

Guru, God And Self Are One

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.

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.

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

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.

He Whose Pure Mind Turns Inward And Searches Whence Does This 'i' Arise, Knows The Self And Merges In You, The Lord, As A River Into The Sea.

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.

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.

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 Explorers Seek Happiness In Finding Curiosities, Discovering New Lands And Undergoing Risks In Adventures. They Are Thrilling. But Where Is Pleasure Found? Only Within. Pleasure Is Not To Be Sought In The External World.

Realization Consists Of Getting Rid Of The False Idea That One Is Not Realized.

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

The Solution To Your Problem Is To See Who Has It.

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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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The Self Alone Exists. When You Try To Trace The Ego, Which Is The Basis Of The Perception Of The World And Everything Else, You Find The Ego Does Not Exist At All And Neither Does All This Creation That You See.

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

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

Transforming Yourself Is A Means Of Giving Light To The Whole World.

You Impose Limits On Your True Nature Of Infinite Being. Then You Get Displeased To Be Only A Limited Creature. Then You Begin Spiritual Practices To Transcend These Non-existing Limits. But If Your Practice Itself Implies The Existence Of These Limits, How Could They Allow You To Transcend Them.

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."

Reality Is Simply The Loss Of Ego. Destroy The Ego By Seeking Its Identity. Because The Ego Is No Entity It Will Automatically Vanish And Reality Will Shine Forth By Itself.

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.

When One Remains Without Thinking One Understands Another By Means Of The Universal Language Of Silence.

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.

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

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

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

He That Sees The Lord In The Temple, The Living Body, By Seeking Him Within, Can Alone See Him, The Infinite, In The Temple Of The Universe, Having Become The Endless Eye.

In Accordance With The Prarabdha Of Each, The One Whose Function It Is To Ordain Makes Each To Act. What Will Not Happen Will Never Happen, Whatever Effort One May Put Forth. And What Will Happen Will Not Fail To Happen, However Much One May Seek To Prevent It. This Is Certain. The Part Of Wisdom Therefore Is To Stay Quiet.

The World Is Illusory, Only Brahman Is Real, Brahman Is The World

Without Seeing The Origin Of Light, The True Form Of One's Self, The Ordinary Man Sees By The Mind Different Things And Is Deluded.

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.

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 Ultimate Truth Is So Simple. It Is Nothing More Than Being In The Pristine State. This Is All That Needs To Be Said. Only Mature Minds Can Grasp The Simple Truth In All Its Nakedness.

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.

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.

Realisation Is Nothing New To Be Acquired. It Is Already There, But Obstructed By A Screen Of Thoughts. All Our Attempts Are Directed To Lifting This Screen And Then Realisation Is Revealed.

The Pure Mind Is Itself Brahman; It Therefore Follows That Brahman Is Not Other Than The Mind Of The Sage.

Whatever Is Done Lovingly, With Righteous Purity And With Peace Of Mind, Is A Good Action. Everything Which Is Done With The Stain Of Desire And With Agitation Filling The Mind Is Classified As A Bad Action.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

The Main Factor In Meditation Is To Keep The Mind Active In Its Own Pursuit Without Taking In External Impressions Or Thinking Of Other Matters.

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

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

The World Is Not Outside You.

The Experience Of Not Forgetting Consciousness Alone Is The State Of Devotion Which Is The Relationship Of Unfading Real Love, Because The Real Knowledge Of Self, Which Shines As The Undivided Supreme Bliss Itself, Surges Up As The Nature Of Love. Love Itself Is The Actual Form Of God. That Is Pure Bliss. Call It Pure Bliss, God, Self, Or What You Will. That Is Devotion, That Is Realization And That Is Everything.

Meditation Is Sticking To One Thought. That Single Thought Keeps Away Other Thoughts; Distraction Of Mind Is A Sign Of Its Weakness; By Constant Meditation It Gains Strength.

You Are All Searching For The Silence Of The Mountain. But You're Looking For Something Outside. This Silence Is Accessible To You Right Now, Inside The Center Of Your Own Being.

It Is Enough That One Surrenders Oneself. Surrender Is Giving Oneself Up To The Original Cause Of One's Being. Do Not Delude Yourself By Imagining This Source To Be Some God Outside You. One's Source Is Within Oneself. Give Yourself Up To It. That Means That You Should Seek The Source And Merge In It.

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

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.

The Fact Is That The Mind Is Only A Bundle Of Thoughts. The Mind Is Fattened By New Thoughts Rising Up. Therefore It Is Foolish To Attempt To Kill The Mind By Means Of The Mind. The Only Way Of Doing It Is To Find Its Source And Hold On To It. The Mind Will Then Fade Away Of Its Own Accord.

You Need Not Aspire For Or Get Any New State. Get Rid Of Your Present Thoughts, That Is All.

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

There Is Nothing So Simple As Being The Self. It Requires No Effort, No Aid. One Has To Leave Off The Wrong Identity And Be In His (her) Eternal, Natural, Inherent State.

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

It Is Said That The Heart Is In The Microcosm Just As The Orb Of The Sun In The Macrocosm. The Mind In Sahasrara Is Like The Disc Of The Moon.

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