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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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The Mind Turned Inwards

Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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

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By Whatever Path You Go, You Will Have To Lose Yourself In The One. Surrender Is Complete Only When You Reach The Stage `thou Art All' And `thy Will Be Done'.

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Love Is Verily The Heart Of All Religions.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Meditation Is Sticking To One Thought. That Single Thought Keeps Away Other Thoughts; Distraction Of Mind Is A Sign Of Its Weakness; By Constant Meditation It Gains Strength.

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.

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If A Man Considers That He Is Born, He Cannot Avoid The Fear Of Death. Let Him Find Out If He Has Been Born Or If The Self Has Any Birth. He Will Discover That The Self Always Exists, That The Body That Is Born Resolves Itself Into Thought And That The Emergence Of Thought Is The Root Of All Mischief. Find From Where Thoughts Emerge. Then You Will Be Able To Abide In The Ever-present Inmost Self And Be Free From The Idea Of Birth Or The Fear Of Death.

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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The Master Is Within; Meditation Is Meant To Remove The Ignorant Idea That He Is Only Outside. If He Is A Stranger Whom You Await, He Is Bound To Disappear Also. What Is The Use Of A Transient Being Like That? But So Long As You Think You Are Separate Or That You Are The Body, An External Master Is Also Necessary And He Will Appear To Have A Body. When The Wrong Identification Of Oneself With The Body Ceases, The Master Will Be Found To Be None Other Than The Self.

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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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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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

God Dwells In You, As You, And You Don't Have To 'do' Anything To Be God-realized Or Self-realized, It Is Already Your True And Natural State. Just Drop All Seeking, Turn Your Attention Inward, And Sacrifice Your Ego Mind To The One Self Radiating In The Heart Of Your Very Being. For This To Be Your Own Presently Lived Experience, Self-inquiry Meditation Is A Direct And Immediate Way.

Whenever A Thought Arises, Instead Of Trying Even A Little Either To Follow It Up Or To Fulfil It, It Would Be Better To First Enquire, "to Whom Did This Thought Arise?"

The Self Is Here And Now, It Is The Only Reality. There Is Nothing Else.

A Man Does Not Have To Go And Find Where His Eyes Are In Order To See. The Heart Is There, Always Open To You, If You Care To Enter It, Always Supporting Your Movements, Although You May Be Unaware Of It. It Is Perhaps More Correct To Say That The Self Is The Heart. Really The Self Is The Centre And Is Everywhere Aware Of Itself As The Heart Or Self-awareness.

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.

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

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

Self-reform Automatically Brings About Social Reform.

Guru, God And Self Are One

There Is No Seeing. Seeing Is Only Being.

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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.

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

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

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.

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

We Are So Engrossed With The Objects, Or Appearances Revealed By The Light, That We Pay No Attention To The Light.

Eating, Bathing, Going To The Toilet, Talking, Thinking, And Many Other Activities Related To The Body Are All Work. How Is It That The Performance Of One Particular Act Is Alone (considered) Work? To Be Still Is To Be Always Engaged In Work. To Be Silent Is To Be Always Talking.

Mind Is But A Poor Reflection Of The Radiant Heart.

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

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.

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.

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.

The Ego's Phenomenal Existence Is Transcended When You Dive Into The Source From Where The `i'-thought Rises

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

Having Set One's Family In Consonance With The Community, He Should Make His Family Prosperous To Ensure The Prosperity Of The Community.

You Do Not Like To Suffer Yourself. How Can You Inflict Suffering On Others?

The Fact Is That You Are Not The Body. The Self Does Not Move But The World Moves In It. You Are Only What You Are.

Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By The Mind.

You And I Are The Same. What I Have Done Is Surely Possible For All. You Are The Self Now And Can Never Be Anything Else. Throw Your Worries To The Wind, Turn Within And Find Peace.

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

The Ultimate Truth Is So Simple. It Is Nothing More Than Being In The Pristine State. This Is All That Needs To Be Said. Only Mature Minds Can Grasp The Simple Truth In All Its Nakedness.

Misery Does Not Exist In Reality But Only In Mere Imagination.

A Realized One Sends Out Waves Of Spiritual Influence In His Aura, Which Draw Many People Towards Him. Yet He May Sit In A Cave And Maintain Complete Silence.

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.

The Source Of The Ego Is God.

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

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.

The State Of Liberated Being Can Be Reached Only By "dying"; But (this) Dying Does Not Consist In Destruction Of The Body; One Should Understand That True Death Is The Extinction Of The Ideas "i" And "mine."

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

...the Lord Of The Universe Carries The Entire Burden Of This World. You Imagine You Do. You Can Hand All Your Burdens Over To His Care. Whatever You Have To Do, You Will Be Made An Instrument For Doing It At The Right Time. Do Not Think You Cannot Do It Unless You Have The Desire To Do It. Desire Does Not Give You The Strength For Doing. The Entire Strength Is The Lord's.

Turn The Mind Inward And Cease Thinking Of Yourself As The Body; Thereby You Will Come To Know That The Self Is Ever Happy. Neither Grief Nor Misery Is Experienced In This State.

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

Aim High, Aim At The Highest, And All Lower Aims Are Thereby Achieved. It Is Looking Below On The Stormy Sea Of Differences That Makes You Sink. Look Up, Beyond These And See The One Glorious Real, And You Are Saved.

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