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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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The Self Alone Exists.

Ramana Maharshi

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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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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.

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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He Who Has Realized The Self In The Heart Has Transcended The Dualities And Is Never Perplexed.

The Very Fact That We Wish For Liberation Shows That Freedom From All Bondage Is Our Real Nature. It Is Not To Be Freshly Acquired. All That Is Necessary Is To Get Rid Of The False Notion That We Are Bound.

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

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

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.

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

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

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

The End Of All Wisdom Is Love, Love, Love.

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The More You Prune A Plant, The More It Grows. So Too The More You Seek To Annihilate The Ego, The More It Will Increase. You Should Seek The Root Of The Ego And Destroy It.

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.

Wanting To Reform The World Without Discovering One's True Self Is Like Trying To Cover The World With Leather To Avoid The Pain Of Walking On Stones And Thorns. It Is Much Simpler To Wear Shoes.

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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.

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.

Grace Is Within You. Grace Is Your Self. Grace Is Not Something To Be Acquired From Others. If It Is External, It Is Useless. All That Is Necessary Is To Know Its Existence Is In You. You Are Never Out Of Its Operation.

We Are Always Peace. To Get Rid Of The Idea That We Are Not Peace Is All That Is Required.

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

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Till You Reach The State Of Jnana And Thus Wake Out Of Maya You Must Do Social Service By Relieving Suffering Whenever You See It. But Even Then You Must Do It Without Ahankara, I.e., Without The Sense Of 'i Am The Doer', But With The Feeling 'i Am The Lord's Tool'.

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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.

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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.

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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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Mind Is A Wonderful Force Inherent In The Self.

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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'.

Your True Nature Is That Of Infinite Spirit. The Feeling Of Limitation Is The Work Of The Mind.

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

Even In Intake, The One Steadfast Thought Is Said To Be The Natural State. Nirvikalpa Samadhi Will Result When The Sensory Objects Are Not Present.

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

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.

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.

The Fact Is That The Mind Is Only A Bundle Of Thoughts. The Mind Is Fattened By New Thoughts Rising Up. Therefore It Is Foolish To Attempt To Kill The Mind By Means Of The Mind. The Only Way Of Doing It Is To Find Its Source And Hold On To It. The Mind Will Then Fade Away Of Its Own Accord.

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.

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.

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

Under Whatever Name Or Form We Worship It, It Leads Us On To Knowledge Of The Nameless, Formless Absolute. Yet, To See One's True Self In The Absolute, To Subside Into It And Be One With "it, This Is The True Knowledge Of The Truth.

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

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.

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.

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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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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.

Let What Comes Come, Let What Goes Go.

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

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.

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.

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.

What Message Is Needed When Heart Speaks To Heart?

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

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

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 Is Nothing New To Gain. On The Other Hand A Man Must Lose His Ignorance. That Is All.

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

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

Nothing To Lose

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

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

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

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.

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.

Then All This Earth Shines Like One House.

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.

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

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.

There Is Nothing So Simple As Being The Self. It Requires No Effort, No Aid. One Has To Leave Off The Wrong Identity And Be In His (her) Eternal, Natural, Inherent State.

Grace Is Within You. If It Were External, It Would Be Useless.

One Must Realise His Self In Order To Open The Store Of Unalloyed Happiness.

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.

The Source Of The Ego Is God.

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.

The World Is Not Outside You.

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.

True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Meditation Applies The Brakes To The Mind.

Meditation Practice

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

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.

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.

There Is No Seeing. Seeing Is Only Being.

Guru, God And Self Are One

Happiness Is Not To Be Sought In Solitude Or In Busy Centers. It Is In The Self.

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

Dreamless Sleep

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feelings Come And Go

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

He Whose Pure Mind Turns Inward And Searches Whence Does This 'i' Arise, Knows The Self And Merges In You, The Lord, As A River Into The Sea.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Forgetfulness Of Your Real Nature Is True Death; Remembrance Of It Is Rebirth.

Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By The Mind. Therefore The Mind Is Subtler Than The Atom. That Which Is Behind The Mind, Namely The Individual Soul, Is Subtler Than The Mind.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The Solution To Your Problem Is To See Who Has It.

Words Of Wisdom

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.

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

No One Succeeds Without Effort... Those Who Succeed Owe Their Success To Perseverance.

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?"

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

Your Duty Is To Be, And Not To Be This Or That. I Am That I Am Sums Up The Whole Truth; The Method Is Summarized In Be Still.

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

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.

Love Is Verily The Heart Of All Religions.

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."

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

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.

You Know That You Know Nothing. Find Out That Knowledge.

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

Mind Is But A Poor Reflection Of The Radiant Heart.

Why Should You Trouble Yourself About The Future? You Do Not Even Properly Know About The Present. Take Care Of The Present, The Future Will Take Care Of Itself.

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.

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.

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

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