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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.

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What Exists In Truth

Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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I See Only What You See, But I Notice What I See.

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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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.

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

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True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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

To The Extent We Behave With Humility, To That Extent Good Will Result.

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

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.

Happiness Is Your Real Nature. You Identify With Yourself With The Body And Mind, Feel It's Limitations, And Suffer. Realize Your True Self In Order To Open The Store Of Happiness. That True Self Is The Reality, The Supreme Truth, Which Is The Self Of All The World You Now See, The Self Of All The Selves, The One Real, The Supreme, The Eternal Self - As Distinct From The Ego Or The Bodily Idea For The Self.

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

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

You Are All Searching For The Silence Of The Mountain. But You're Looking For Something Outside. This Silence Is Accessible To You Right Now, Inside The Center Of Your Own Being.

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.

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

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

Silence Is Also Conversation.

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.

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.

That Alone Is Real Which Exists By Itself, Which Reveals Itself By Itself And Which Is Eternal And Unchanging.

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

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

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

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."

In The Heart's Cavity, The Sole Brahman As An Ever-persisting 'i' Shines Direct In The Form Of The Self. Into The Heart Enter Thyself, With Mind In Search Or In Deeper Plunge. Or By Restraint Of Life-movement Be Firmly Poised In The Self.

If The Mind Falls Asleep, Awaken It. Then If It Starts Wandering, Make It Quiet. If You Reach The State Where There Is Neither Sleep Nor Movement Of Mind, Stay Still In That, The Natural (real) State.

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

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

Food Affects The Mind. For The Practice Of Any Kind Of Yoga, Vegetarianism Is Absolutely Necessary Since It Makes The Mind More Pure And Harmonious.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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.

Realisation Is Nothing New To Be Acquired. It Is Already There, But Obstructed By A Screen Of Thoughts. All Our Attempts Are Directed To Lifting This Screen And Then Realisation Is Revealed.

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.

Grace Is Always Present. You Imagine It As Something High In The Sky, Far Away, Something That Has To Descend. It Is Really Inside You, In Your Heart. When The Mind Rests In Its Source, Grace Rushes Forth, Sprouting As From A Spring Within You.

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

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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.

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

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.

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.

Discover Your Undying Self And Be Immortal And Happy.

Speaking Of Self-realizatio N Is A Delusion. It Is Only Because People Have Been Under The Delusion That The Non-self Is The Self And The Unreal The Real That They Have To Be Weaned Out Of It By The Other Delusion Called Self-realizatio N; Because Actually The Self Always Is The Self And There Is No Such Thing As Realizing It.

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.

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

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.

There Is A State When Words Cease And Silence Prevails.

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.

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.

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.

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