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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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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.

Understanding the Quote: "your duty is to be, and not to be this or that...."

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Order
Stores
For Those Who Have Obtained Unobstructed Knowledge Of Self, The World Is Seen Merely As A Bondage Causing Imagination.
Self
Imagination
World
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.
Spiritual
Yoga
People
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.
Reality
Self
Goal
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.
Heart
Self
Purpose
...bliss Is Not Something To Be Got. On The Other Hand You Are Always Bliss. This Desire [for Bliss] Is Born Of The Sense Of Incompleteness. To Whom Is This Sense Of Incompleteness? Enquire. In Deep Sleep You Were Blissful. Now You Are Not So. What Has Interposed Between That Bliss And This Non-bliss? It Is The Ego. Seek Its Source And Find You Are Bliss.
Sleep
Hands
Ego
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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Self
World
Then All This Earth Shines Like One House.
House
Shining
Earth
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.
Trying
May
Silent
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.
Heart
Realization
Bliss
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.
Spiritual
Real
Self
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.
Self
Ego
Perception
There Is Neither Past Nor Future. There Is Only The Present. Yesterday Was The Present To You When You Experienced It, And Tomorrow Will Be Also The Present When You Experience It. Therefore, Experience Takes Place Only In The Present, And Beyond Experience Nothing Exists.
Past
Yesterday
Tomorrow
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.
Real
Moving
Yoga
There Is No Greater Mystery Than This, That We Keep Seeking Reality Though In Fact We Are Reality. We Think That There Is Something Hiding Reality And That This Must Be Destroyed Before Reality Is Gained. How Ridiculous! A Day Will Dawn When You Will Laugh ... At All Your Past Efforts. That Which Will Be The Day You Laugh Is Also Here And Now.
Past
Reality
Thinking
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.
Mean
Rising Up
Mind
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.
Yoga
Ego
Doubters
Your Duty Is To Be, And Not To Be This Or That.
Letting Go
Meditation Practice
Self Realization
We Are Always Peace. To Get Rid Of The Idea That We Are Not Peace Is All That Is Required.
Spiritual
Ideas
Spirituality
Truth Burns Up All Karma And Frees You From All Births.
Karma
Birth
All That Is Required To Realise The Self Is To “be Still.
Inspirational
Wisdom
Self
No One Succeeds Without Effort... Those Who Succeed Owe Their Success To Perseverance.
Perseverance
Effort
Succeed
If You Make The Thief The Policeman There Will Be Lots Of Investigation But No Arrests Will Ever Be Made.
Thieves
Made
Investigation
The Degree Of Freedom From Unwanted Thoughts And The Degree Of Concentration On A Single Thought Are The Measures To Gauge Spiritual Progress.
Spiritual
Progress
Degrees
The Question 'who Am I?' Is Not Really Meant To Get An Answer, The Question 'who Am I?' Is Meant To Dissolve The Questioner.
Answers
Really Mean
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.
Wisdom
Mean
Self
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.
Heart
Body
Emotion
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.
Thinking
Self
World
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.
Roots
Ego
Plant
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.
Meditation Practice
Self Realization
Method
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.
Two
Seers
Seekers
All Are Seeing God Always. But They Do Not Know It.
Knows
Seeing
Even The Structure Of The Atom Has Been Found By The Mind.
Mind
Atoms
Structure
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.
Self
Ego
Mind
There Are No Impediments To Meditation. The Very Thought Of Such Obstacles Is The Greatest Impediment.
Meditation
Obstacles
Impediments
What Is Illusion? M.: To Whom Is The Illusion? Find It Out. Then Illusion Will Vanish. Generally People Want To Know About Illusion And Do Not Examine To Whom It Is. It Is Foolish. Illusion Is Outside And Unknown. But The Seeker Is Considered To Be Known And Is Inside. Find Out What Is Immediate, Intimate, Instead Of Trying To Find Out What Is Distant And Unknown.
People
Trying
Want
If One's Mind Has Peace, The Whole World Will Appear Peaceful.
Peaceful
Mind
World
It Will Come All Right In The End. There Is The Steady Impulse Of Your Determination That Sets You On Your Feet Again After Every Downfall And Breakdown. Gradually The Obstacles Are All Overcome And Your Current Becomes Stronger. Everything Comes Right In The End. Steady Determination Is What Is Required.
Determination
Feet
Stronger
Happiness Is Not To Be Sought In Solitude Or In Busy Centers. It Is In The Self.
Gratitude
Self
Solitude
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.
Thinking
Talking
Toilets
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.
Soul
Mind
Atoms
When One Remains Without Thinking One Understands Another By Means Of The Universal Language Of Silence.
Mean
Thinking
Silence
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.
Real
Fall
Sleep
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.
Yoga
Meditation
Mind
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.
Real
Self
Order
Mind Is A Wonderful Force Inherent In The Self.
Yoga
Self
Mind
This Perception Of Division Between The Seer And The Object That Is Seen, Is Situated In The Mind. For Those Remaining In The Heart, The Seer Becomes One With The Sight.
Heart
Sight
Perception
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.
Eye
Body
Temples
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.
Wise
Real
Looks
Discover Your Undying Self And Be Immortal And Happy.
Self
Aging
Immortal
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.
Mind
Desire
Agitation
Grace Is Not Something Outside Or You.. In Fact, Your Very Desire For Grace Is Due To Grace That Is Already Working In You.
Grace
Desire
Facts
The "i" Thought Is Said To Be The Sum Total Of All Thoughts. The Source Of The "i" Thought Has To Be Inquired Into.
Yoga
Source
Said
The Experience Of Not Forgetting Consciousness Alone Is The State Of Devotion Which Is The Relationship Of Unfading Real Love, Because The Real Knowledge Of Self, Which Shines As The Undivided Supreme Bliss Itself, Surges Up As The Nature Of Love. Love Itself Is The Actual Form Of God. That Is Pure Bliss. Call It Pure Bliss, God, Self, Or What You Will. That Is Devotion, That Is Realization And That Is Everything.
Real
Love Is
Self
You Are Already That Which You Seek.
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Doubts Arise Because Of An Absence Of Surrender.
Doubt
Surrender
Absence
True Silence Is Really Endless Speech.
Silence
Speech
Endless
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