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See who is the subject and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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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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.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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To know one's Self is to be blissful always.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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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.
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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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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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The world is not outside you.
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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.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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.
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