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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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There Is No Seeing. Seeing Is Only Being.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

All Activities And Events That A Body Is To Go Through Are Determined At The Time Of Conception.

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

Self-reform Automatically Brings About Social Reform.

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

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 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.

Silence Is Also Conversation.

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.

There Is No Greater Mystery Than This, That We Keep Seeking Reality Though In Fact We Are Reality.

Meditation Helps Concentration Of The Mind. Then The Mind Is Free From Thoughts And Is In The Meditated Form.

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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.

Turn The Mind Inward And Cease Thinking Of Yourself As The Body; Thereby You Will Come To Know That The Self Is Ever Happy. Neither Grief Nor Misery Is Experienced In This State.

Thinking Of You

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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.

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

...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.

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

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.

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

Dreamless Sleep

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.

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.

If You Make The Thief The Policeman There Will Be Lots Of Investigation But No Arrests Will Ever Be Made.

You Do Not Like To Suffer Yourself. How Can You Inflict Suffering On Others?

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

Pure Consciousness, Which Is The Heart, Includes All, And Nothing Is Outside Or Apart From It. That Is The Ultimate Truth.

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.

Silence Is Most Powerful. Speech Is Always Less Powerful Than Silence.

Existence Of Isvara Follows Our Conception Of Isvara. Let Us First Know Whose Concept He Is. The Concept Will Be Only According To The One Who Conceives. Find Out Who You Are And The Other Problem Will Solve Itself.

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