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Jnana Is Given Neither From Outside Nor From Another Person. It Can Be Realised By Each And Everyone In His Own Heart. The Jnana Guru Of Everyone Is Only The Supreme Self That Is Always Revealing Its Own Truth In Every Heart Through The Being-conciousness 'i Am, I Am.' The Granting Of True Knowledge By Him Is Initiation Into Jnana. The Grace Of The Guru Is Only That Self-awareness That Is One's Own True Nature. It Is The Inner Conciousness By Which He Is Unceasingly Revealing His Existence. This Divine Upadesa Is Always Going On Naturally In Everyone.

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Jnana Is Given Neither

Ramana Maharshi

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Jnana Is Given Neither From Outside Nor From Another Person. It Can Be Realised By Each And Everyone In His Own Heart. The Jnana Guru Of Everyone Is Only The Supreme Self That Is Always Revealing Its Own Truth In Every Heart Through The Being-conciousness 'i Am, I Am.' The Granting Of True Knowledge By Him Is Initiation Into Jnana. The Grace Of The Guru Is Only That Self-awareness That Is One's Own True Nature. It Is The Inner Conciousness By Which He Is Unceasingly Revealing His Existence. This Divine Upadesa Is Always Going On Naturally In Everyone.

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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.

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.

The Life Of Action Need Not Be Renounced. If You Meditate For An Hour Or Two Every Day You Can Then Carry On With Your Duties. If You Meditate In The Right Manner Then The Current Of Mind Induced Will Continue To Flow Even In The Midst Of Your Work.

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Dreamless Sleep

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

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Self-inquiry Is The Process And The Goal Also. 'i Am' Is The Goal And The Final Reality. To Hold To It With Effort Is Self-inquiry. When Spontaneous And Natural It Is Realization.

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

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

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

The Self Itself Is The World; The Self Itself Is 'i'; The Self Itself Is God; All Is Siva, The Self.

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'.

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

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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.

A Higher Power Is Leading You; Be Led By The Same. It Knows What To Do And How To Do It.

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Let What Comes Come, Let What Goes Go.

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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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.

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

The Seat Of Realization 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.

See What Helps You To Keep Away All Other Thoughts And Adopt That Method For Your Meditation.

Liberation Exists- And You Will Never Be Liberated.

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.

Grace Is Always Present. You Imagine It As Something High In The Sky, Far Away, Something That Has To Descend. It Is Really Inside You, In Your Heart. When The Mind Rests In Its Source, Grace Rushes Forth, Sprouting As From A Spring Within You.

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He Who Thinks He Is The Doer Is Also The Sufferer.

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

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Your Own Self-realization Is The Greatest Service You Can Render The World.

Meditation Applies The Brakes To The Mind.

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

Discover Your Undying Self And Be Immortal And Happy.

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

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

To Know One's Self Is To Be Blissful Always.

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

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

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.

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

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.

All That Exists Is But The Manifestation Of The Supreme Being.

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.

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

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

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?

When There Are Thoughts, It Is Distraction: When There Are No Thoughts, It Is Meditation.

Peace Is Your Natural State. It Is The Mind That Obstructs The Natural State.

The State We Call Realization Is Simply Being Oneself, Not Knowing Anything Or Becoming Anything.

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.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

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.

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

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.

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

The Seeker Himself Becomes The Knower. The Thing To Be Known Is Already There. There Is Nothing To Be Known Afresh. More-over There Are No Two Things. There Is Only The Seer, The Knower.

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.

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.

The World Is Not Outside You.

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.

Your True Nature Is That Of Infinite Spirit. The Feeling Of Limitation Is The Work Of The Mind.

If You Go The Way Of Your Thoughts You Will Be Carried Away By Them And You Will Find Yourself In An Endless Maze.

Finding Yourself

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

Mind Is A Wonderful Force Inherent In The Self.

The Deeply Learned Ones Know The Mind As The Directly Expressed Meaning Of The Supreme Knowledge. The Heart Is The Meaning Aimed At. The Supreme Is None Other Than The Heart.

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

Words Of Wisdom

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.

The Mind Is Only A Bundle Of Thoughts. The Thoughts Have Their Root In The I-thought. Whoever Investigates The True "i" Enjoys The Stillness Of Bliss.

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.

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

Know That The Eradication Of The Identification With The Body Is Charity, Spiritual Austerity And Ritual Sacrifice; It Is Virtue, Divine Union And Devotion; It Is Heaven, Wealth, Peace And Truth; It Is Grace; It Is The State Of Divine Silence; It Is The Deathless Death; It Is Jnana, Renunciation, Final Liberation And Bliss.

What Message Is Needed When Heart Speaks To Heart?

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

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

Thoughts Come And Go. Feelings Come And Go. Find Out What It Is That Remains.

Feelings Come And Go

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.

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

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.

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

All That One Gives To Others One Gives To One's Self. If This Truth Is Understood, Who Will Not Give To Others?

In Truth, You Are Spirit. The Body Has Been Projected By The Mind, Which Itself Originates From Spirit.

Concentration Of The Mind Is In A Way Common To Both Knowledge And Yoga. Yoga Aims At Union Of The Individual With The Universal, The Reality. This Reality Cannot Be New. It Must Exist Even Now, And It Does Exist.

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

You Are Already That Which You Seek.

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The Source Of The Ego Is God.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

When One Makes The Mind Stick To One Thought, The Mind Becomes Rock-steady And The Energy Is Conserved.

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.

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

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.

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.

The Degree Of Freedom From Unwanted Thoughts And The Degree Of Concentration On A Single Thought Are The Measures To Gauge Spiritual Progress.

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.

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

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