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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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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death remembrance of it is rebirth.
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You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.
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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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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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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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To know one's Self is to be blissful always.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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The world is not outside you.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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'.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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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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Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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