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The only freedom man has is to strive for and acquire the jnana which will enable him not to identify himself with the body. The body will go through the actions rendered inevitable by prarabdha (destiny based on the balance sheet of past lives) and a man is free either to identify himself with the body and be attached to the fruits of its actions, or to be detached from it and be a mere witness of its activities.

★Ramana Maharshi★

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The Ordainer controls the fate of souls in accordance with their prarabdhakarma (destiny to be worked out in this life, resulting from the balance sheet of actions in past lives). 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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We cannot empty the mind by thinking.

Only by observation.

Robert Adams

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TALK 6

HOW TO PREVENT MENTAL DISTRACTIONS

A question was asked by a monk (sannyasi) about how to prevent the mind from being distracted.

Maharshi: You see the objects on forgetting your own Self. If you keep hold of your Self, you will not see the objective world.

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Do not allow your mind to wander here and there; endeavor to make it one-pointed; have one single end in view. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma

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The void  which  is  the  infinite  and  all-encompassing  one  whole  without  a second,  which  is  just  the  effulgence  of  pure  wisdom,  which  is  completely devoid  of  visible  phenomena  and  which  consists  of  the  aspect  `I'  is  the  seed which  fructifies  as  liberation,  bestowing  salvation  by  enabling  one  to  unite with  the  Supreme. 

~ Devikalottara

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The Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase. 

To remain as one's Self is to enter the Heart.

~ Ramana Maharshi

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silence

"Everybody will go after only what gives happiness to him. Thinking that happiness comes from some object or other, you go after it. See from where all happiness, including the happiness you regard as coming from sense objects, really comes. You will understand all happiness comes only from Self. Then you will always abide in the Self."

~ Sri Raman Maharishi.