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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
Philosopher
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Still
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death remembrance of it is rebirth.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.
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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.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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