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One Should Remain As A Witness To Whatever Happens, Adopting The Attitude, 'let Whatever Strange Things That Happens Happen, Let Us See!' This Should Be One's Practice. Nothing Happens By Accident In The Divine Scheme Of Things.

-Ramana Maharshi

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One Should Remain As

Ramana Maharshi

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One Should Remain As A Witness To Whatever Happens, Adopting The Attitude, 'let Whatever Strange Things That Happens Happen, Let Us See!' This Should Be One's Practice. Nothing Happens By Accident In The Divine Scheme Of Things.

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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'.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Discover Your Undying Self And Be Immortal And Happy.

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.

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The World Is Not Outside You.

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.

Apart From Thoughts, There Is No Independent Entity Called The World. In Deep Sleep There Are No Thoughts, And There Is No World. In The States Of Waking And Dream, There Are Thoughts, And There Is A World Also. Just As The Spider Emits The Thread (of The Web) Out Of Itself And Again Withdraws It Into Itself, Likewise The Mind Projects The World Out Of Itself And Again Resolves It Into Itself.

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Mind Is But A Poor Reflection Of The Radiant Heart.

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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.

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

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.

Such Happiness Is Relative And Is Better Called Pleasure Or Satisfaction.

The Very Fact That We Wish For Liberation Shows That Freedom From All Bondage Is Our Real Nature. It Is Not To Be Freshly Acquired. All That Is Necessary Is To Get Rid Of The False Notion That We Are Bound.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Words Of Wisdom

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

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.

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

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.

Actions Themselves Form No Bondage. Bondage Is Only The False Belief,"i Am The Do-er."

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

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