quotes 1.1

As  Absolute Emptiness the Self 

shines by Its own light......

forever effulgent in all places, 

irrespective of spatial boundaries.......

Those who meditate on the 

Supreme Void and 

become established in it through

constant practice, 

will reach the supreme abode [.....] 

beyond birth and death.....

Hear it from me......

In order to avoid all  [.....] 

suffering and sorrows.....

meditate ever on the great Void!!!

Anma Sakshatkara....29....

Devikalottara....42 & 24....

Sri Ramana Maharshi....

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Born of forms, 

rooted in forms, 

feeding on forms, 

ever changing its forms, 

itself formless, 

this ego - ghost takes to its 

heels on enquiry....

Sri Ramana Maharshi....

... 

The more you are preoccupied by your own physical aging, the more anxious you will become. Do not worry so much about your physical appearance. Concentrate, rather, on not wasting your life. Practice the Dharma. The more you engage in it, the more your satisfaction will grow. 

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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Absence of thoughts does not mean a blank. 

There must be one to know the blank. 

Knowledge and ignorance are of the mind. 

They are born of duality. 

But the Self is beyond knowledge and ignorance. 

It is light itself. 

There is no necessity to see the Self with another Self. 

There are no two selves. 

What is not Self is non-self. 

The non-self cannot see the Self. 

The Self has no sight or hearing. 

It lies beyond these - all alone, as pure consciousness.

~ Sri Ramana Maharshi 

 ...from 'Talk 245'; 8th September, 1936

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The eye of truth which abides as unalloyed consciousness, pure grace possessing power and beauty, is indeed the absolute, the infinite eye. 

~ Sri Muruganar , Sri Guru Ramana Prasadam 

Artist unknown.

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What the bhakta (devotee) calls surrender, the man who does vichara (Self-Inquiry) calls jnana.  Both are trying only to take the ego back to the source from which it sprang, and make it merge there.

(Day by Day with Bhagavan)

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What the bhakta (devotee) calls surrender, the man who does vichara (Self-Inquiry) calls jnana.  Both are trying only to take the ego back to the source from which it sprang, and make it merge there.

(Day by Day with Bhagavan)

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The bag of memory - past. 

The bag of desire - future.

 Believing in them as mine - carrying it as I - here and now.

Why complain and suffer in pain?

Here and Now this is the truth

If you wish to be free, 

Know you are the Self, 

The witness of all these, 

The heart of awareness. 

Set your body aside. 

Sit in your own awareness.

- Astavakra gita 

(Chapter 1 - verse 4)m

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What the bhakta (devotee) calls surrender, the man who does vichara (Self-Inquiry) calls jnana.  Both are trying only to take the ego back to the source from which it sprang, and make it merge there.

(Day by Day with Bhagavan)

Ramana: Because of latent tendencies of the mind. But really, it is easy, since we are the Self. All we have to do is to remember that. We keep on forgetting it, and thus think we are this body, or this ego

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He does not feel that he is the agent who acted or the one who refrained from action.