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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.

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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.

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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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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."

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.

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.

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

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

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

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Grace Is Ever Present. All That Is Necessary Is That You Surrender To It.

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Once The Current Of Awareness Of The Self Is Set Afoot, It Becomes Everlasting And Continuous By Intensification.

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

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

Have Faith In God And In Yourself; That Will Cure All. Hope For The Best, Expect The Best, Toil For The Best And Everything Will Come Right For You In The End.

Of All The Thoughts That Rise In The Mind, The Thought 'i' Is The First Thought.

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

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The Question 'who Am I?' Is Not Really Meant To Get An Answer, The Question 'who Am I?' Is Meant To Dissolve The Questioner.

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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.

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

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.

Non-action Is Unceasing Activity. The Sage Is Characterized By Eternal And Intense Activity. His Stillness Is Like The Apparent Stillness Of A Fast Rotating Gyroscope.

Nearly All Mankind Is More Or Less Unhappy Because Nearly All Do Not Know The True Self. Real Happiness Abides In Self-knowledge Alone. All Else Is Fleeting. To Know One's Self Is To Be Blissful Always.

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.

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 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.

The World Is Illusory, Only Brahman Is Real, Brahman Is The World

Mind Is A Wonderful Force Inherent In The Self.

All That Exists Is But The Manifestation Of The Supreme Being.

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.

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.

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

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

Every Living Being Longs Always To Be Happy, Untainted By Sorrow; And Everyone Has The Greatest Love For Himself, Which Is Solely Due To The Fact That Happiness Is His Real Nature. Hence, In Order To Realize That Inherent And Untainted Happiness, Which Indeed He Daily Experiences When The Mind Is Subdued In Deep Sleep, It Is Essential That He Should Know Himself. For Obtaining Such Knowledge The Inquiry 'who Am I?' In Quest Of The Self Is The Best Means.

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

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.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

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

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

All Unhappiness Is Due To The Ego. With It Comes All Your Trouble. If You Would Deny The Ego And Scorch It By Ignoring It You Would Be Free.

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.

Love Is Verily The Heart Of All Religions.

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

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

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.

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

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.

It Is Said That The Heart Is In The Microcosm Just As The Orb Of The Sun In The Macrocosm. The Mind In Sahasrara Is Like The Disc Of The Moon.

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

Feelings Come And Go

Truth Burns Up All Karma And Frees You From All Births.

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

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

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

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

Self Realization

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.

Your Own Self-realization Is The Greatest Service You Can Render The World.

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.

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

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

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

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

Meditation Applies The Brakes To The Mind.

Meditation Practice

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

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 Experience Of Silence Alone Is The Real And Perfect Knowledge.

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.

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.

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

An Unawakened Person Sees Only His Mind, Which Is Merely A Reflection Of The Light Of Pure Consciousness Arising From The Heart.

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.

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

...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.

That Which Is Not Present In Deep Dreamless Sleep Is Not Real

Dreamless Sleep

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

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.

Let What Comes Come, Let What Goes Go.

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.

Discover Your Undying Self And Be Immortal And Happy.

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

How Does One Get Rid Of Fear? Ramana: What Is Fear? It Is Only A Thought. If There Is Anything Besides The Self There Is Reason To Fear. Who Sees Things Separate From The Self? First The Ego Arises And Sees Objects As External. If The Ego Does Not Rise, The Self Alone Exists And There Is Nothing External. For Anything External To Oneself Implies The Existence Of The Seer Within. Seeking It There Will Eliminate Doubt And Fear. Not Only Fear, All Other Thoughts Centred Round The Ego Will Disappear Along With It.

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