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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
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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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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the 'I' does not exist, alone is Self.
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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.
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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.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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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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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.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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