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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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The World Is So Unhappy Because It Is Ignorant Of The True Self. Man’s Real Nature Is Happiness. Happiness Is Inborn In The True Self. Man’s Search For Happiness Is An Unconscious Search For His True Self. The True Self Is Imperishable; Therefore, When A Man Finds It, He Finds A Happiness Which Does Not Come To An End.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The Macrocosm Is In Its Entirety In The Body. The Body Is In Its Entirety In The Heart. Therefore Heart Is The Summarised Form Of All The Macrocosm.

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

Self Realization

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

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 No Seeing. Seeing Is Only Being.

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.

There Is No Truth. There Is Only The Truth Within Each Moment.

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

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

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

For Those Who Have Obtained Unobstructed Knowledge Of Self, The World Is Seen Merely As A Bondage Causing Imagination.

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.

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.

Pleasure And Pain Are Only Aspects Of The Mind. Our Essential Nature Is Happiness

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.

There Is A State When Words Cease And Silence Prevails.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Peace Is The Inner Nature Of Humankind. If You Find It Within Yourself, You Will Then Find It Everywhere.

All That Is Required To Realise The Self Is To “be Still.

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