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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.

-Ramana Maharshi

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When You Truly Feel

Ramana Maharshi

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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.

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

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.

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Meditation Applies The Brakes To The Mind.

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Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

When One Remains Without Thinking One Understands Another By Means Of The Universal Language Of Silence.

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

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

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

Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

There Is No Mind To Control If You Realise The Self. The Mind Having Vanished, The Self Shines Forth. In The Realised Man, The Mind May Be Active Or Inactive, The Self Remains For Him.

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.

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'.

The Mind Of One Meditating On A Single Object Becomes One-pointed. And One-pointedness Of Mind Leads To Abidance In The Self. Real Attainment Is To Be Fully Conscious, To Be Aware Of Surroundings And The People Around, To Move Among Them All, But Not To Merge Consciousness In The Environment. One Should Remain In Inner Independent Awareness.

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

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.

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