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Speaking Of Self-realizatio N Is A Delusion. It Is Only Because People Have Been Under The Delusion That The Non-self Is The Self And The Unreal The Real That They Have To Be Weaned Out Of It By The Other Delusion Called Self-realizatio N; Because Actually The Self Always Is The Self And There Is No Such Thing As Realizing It.

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Speaking Of Self-realizatio N

Ramana Maharshi

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Speaking Of Self-realizatio N Is A Delusion. It Is Only Because People Have Been Under The Delusion That The Non-self Is The Self And The Unreal The Real That They Have To Be Weaned Out Of It By The Other Delusion Called Self-realizatio N; Because Actually The Self Always Is The Self And There Is No Such Thing As Realizing It.

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

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.

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

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The Search "who Am I"...ends In The Annihilation Of The Illusory "i" And The Self Which Remains Over Will Be As Clear As A Gooseberry In The Palm Of One's Hand.

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

Place Your Burden At The Feet Of The Lord Of The Universe Who Is Ever Victorious And Accomplishes Everything. Remain All The Time Steadfast In The Heart, In The Transcendental Absolute. God Knows The Past, Present And Future. He Will Determine The Future For You And Accomplish The Work. What Is To Be Done Will Be Done At The Proper Time. Don't Worry. Abide In The Heart And Surrender Your Acts To The Divine.

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

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.

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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.

See Who Is The Subject; And This Inquiry Leads You To Pure Consciousness Beyond The Subject.

Love Is Verily The Heart Of All Religions.

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

We Loosely Talk Of Self-realization, For Lack Of A Better Term. But How Can One Realize That Which Alone Is Real? All We Need To Do Is To Give Up Our Habit Of Regarding As Real That Which Is Unreal. All Religious Practices Are Meant Solely To Help Us Do This.

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.

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

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There Is Neither Creation Nor Destruction, Neither Destiny Nor Free Will, Neither Path Nor Achievement. This Is The Final Truth.

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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.

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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.

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

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

Realisation Is Not Acquisition Of Anything New Nor Is It A New Faculty. It Is Only Removal Of All Camouflage

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

Knowing The Self, God Is Known.

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

Your Duty Is To Be, And Not To Be This Or That.

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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.

Mind Is Consciousness Which Has Put On Limitations. You Are Originally Unlimited And Perfect. Later You Take On Limitations And Become The Mind.

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.

What Is Illusion? M.: To Whom Is The Illusion? Find It Out. Then Illusion Will Vanish. Generally People Want To Know About Illusion And Do Not Examine To Whom It Is. It Is Foolish. Illusion Is Outside And Unknown. But The Seeker Is Considered To Be Known And Is Inside. Find Out What Is Immediate, Intimate, Instead Of Trying To Find Out What Is Distant And Unknown.

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.

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.

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

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.

There Is Nothing Wrong With God's Creation. Mystery And Suffering Only Exist In The Mind.

Silence Is Also Conversation.

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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God's Grace Consists In The Fact That He Shines In The Heart Of Every One As The Self; That Power Of Grace Does Not Exclude Any One, Whether Good Or Otherwise.

That Alone Is Real Which Exists By Itself, Which Reveals Itself By Itself And Which Is Eternal And Unchanging.

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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.

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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.

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'i Am' Is The Name Of God, God Is None Other Than The Self.

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

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 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.

Realisation Is Our Nature. It Is Nothing New To Be Gained. What Is New Cannot Be Eternal. Therefore There Is No Need For Doubting If One Would Lose Or Gain The Self.

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.

Good Thoughts Keep Off Bad Thoughts. They Must Themselves Disappear Before The State Of Realization.

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.

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

The Source Of The Ego Is God.

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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Silence Is Truth. Silence Is Bliss. Silence Is Peace. And Hence Silence Is The Self.

The Self Is Known To Every One But Not Clearly. You Always Exist.

Beyond The Belief That Something Can Be Lost, There Is Nothing To Lose.

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

When The Mind, One-pointed And Fully Focused, Knows The Supreme Silence In The Heart, This Is True Learning.

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.

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.

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

As You Are, So Is The World.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Peace Is For The Purification Of One's Mind. Power Is For The Growth Of The Community. Having Established The Community With Power, One Should Then Establish Supreme Peace.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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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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.

The Thing To Do Is To Concentrate On The Seer And Not On The Seen, Not On The Objects, But On The Light Which Reveals Them.

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

Dive Deep Into The Chambers Of Your Heart. Find Out The Real, Infinite 'i'. Rest There Peacefully For Ever And Become Identical With The Supreme Self.

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

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

There Is No Seeing. Seeing Is Only Being.

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

Bliss Is A Thing Which Is Always There And Is Not Something Which Comes And Goes. That Which Comes And Goes Is A Creation Of The Mind.

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.

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

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If You Observe Awareness Steadily, This Awareness Itself Becomes The Guru That Will Reveal The Truth.

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

If There Is Anything Besides The Self There Is Reason To Fear? Who Sees The Second? First, The Ego Arises And Sees Objects As External. If The Ego Does Not Rise, The Self Alone Exists And There Is No Second.

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.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

When We Turn The Mind Inwards, God Manifests As The Inner Consciousness.

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.

Realization Is To Get Rid Of The Delusion That You Have Not Realized.

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.

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

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.

Call It By Any Name, God, Self, The Heart, Or The Seat Of Consciousness, It Is All The Same.

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

Our Identification With The Mind And Body Is The Chief Reason For Our Failure To Know Our Self As We Truly Are.

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.

There Is A State When Words Cease And Silence Prevails.

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.

The Greatest Obstacle To Enlightenment Is Getting Past Your Delusion That You Are Not Already Enlightened.

If One's Mind Has Peace, The Whole World Will Appear Peaceful.

I See Only What You See, But I Notice What I See.

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