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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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The Life Of Action

Ramana Maharshi

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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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...bliss Is Not Something To Be Got. On The Other Hand You Are Always Bliss. This Desire [for Bliss] Is Born Of The Sense Of Incompleteness. To Whom Is This Sense Of Incompleteness? Enquire. In Deep Sleep You Were Blissful. Now You Are Not So. What Has Interposed Between That Bliss And This Non-bliss? It Is The Ego. Seek Its Source And Find You Are Bliss.

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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.

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

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

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God Illumines The Mind And Shines Within It. One Cannot Know God By Means Of The Mind. One Can But Turn The Mind Inwards And Merge It In God.

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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

There Are No Impediments To Meditation. The Very Thought Of Such Obstacles Is The Greatest Impediment.

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

If The Ego Rises, All Else Will Also Rise; If It Subsides, All Else Will Also Subside.

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.

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.

The State Of Self-realization, As We Call It, Is Not Attaining Something New Or Reaching Some Goal Which Is Far Away, But Simply Being That Which You Always Are And Which You Always Have Been.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The Normal Self Is The Mind. The Mind Is With Limitations. But Pure Consciousness Is Beyond Limitations, And Is Reached By Investigation Into The "i."

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

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

See Who Is The Doubter, Who Is The Thinker. It Is The Ego. Hold It; The Other Thoughts Will Die Away - The Ego Will Be Left Pure. See The Source From Where The Ego Arises And Abide In It. That Is Pure Consciousness.

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.

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

You Are The Supreme Being, And Yet Thinking Yourself To Be Separate From It, You Strive To Become United With It. What Is Stranger Than This?

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.

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

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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.

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.

Turn Your Vision Inward And Then The Whole World Will Be Full Of The Supreme Spirit.

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

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

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

3. It Is Said That The I-activity Is The Root Of All Activities. From Where The I-thought Emerges, That In Short Is The Heart.

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

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

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

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.

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.

The "i" Thought Is Said To Be The Sum Total Of All Thoughts. The Source Of The "i" Thought Has To Be Inquired Into.

You Are The Witness Of The Three Bodies: The Gross, The Subtle, And The Causal, And Of The Three Times: Past, Present And Future, And Also This Void. In The Story Of The Tenth Man, When Each Of Them Counted And Thought They Were Only Nine, Each One Forgetting To Count Himself, There Is A Stage When They Think One Is Missing And Do Not Know Who It Is; And That Corresponds To The Void. We Are So Accustomed To The Notion That All That We See Around Us Is Permanent And That We Are This Body, That When All This Ceases To Exist We Imagine And Fear That We Also Have Ceased To Exist.

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.

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

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

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.

The Self Is The Heart, Self-luminous. Illumination Arises From The Heart And Reaches The Brain, Which Is The Seat Of The Mind. The World Is Seen With The Mind; So You See The World By The Reflected Light Of The Self.

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.

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

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.

Keep The Remembrance Of Your Real Nature Alive, Even While Working, And Avoid Haste Which Causes You To Forget. Be Deliberate. Practice Meditation To Still The Mind And Cause It To Become Aware Of Its True Relationship To The Self Which Supports It. Do Not Imagine That It Is You Who Are Doing The Work. Think That Is The Underlying Current Which Is Doing It. Identify Yourself With The Current.

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

Self Realization

The Sage Has No Thinking Mind And Therefore There Are No ‘others’ For Him.

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

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

Remain Still, With The Conviction That The Self Shines As Everything Yet Nothing, Within, Without, And Everywhere.

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

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

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

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 New To Gain. On The Other Hand A Man Must Lose His Ignorance. That Is All.

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

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.

From Where Does This "i" Arise? Seek For It Within; It Then Vanishes. This Is The Pursuit Of Wisdom. When The Mind Unceasingly Investigates Its Own Nature, It Transpires That There Is No Such Thing As Mind. This Is The Direct Path For All. The Mind Is Merely Thoughts. Of All Thoughts The Thought "i" Is The Root.

Take Refuge In Silence. You Can Be Here Or There Or Anywhere. Fixed In Silence, Established In The Inner 'i', You Can Be As You Are. The World Will Never Perturb You If You Are Well Founded Upon The Tranquility Within. Gather Your Thoughts Within. Find Out The Thought Centre And Discover Your Self-equipoise. In Storm And Turmoil Be Calm And Silent. Watch The Events Around As A Witness. The World Is A Drama. Be A Witness, Inturned And Introspective.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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