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MIND

Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.

That which arises in this body as 'I' is the mind.

When the subtle mind emerges through the brain and the senses, the gross names and forms are cognized. When it remains in the Heart names and forms disappear... If the mind remains in the Heart, the 'I' or the ego which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self, the Real, Eternal 'I' alone will shine. Where there is not the slightest trace of the ego, there is the Self.

-Sri Ramana Maharshi

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30. The Disappearance of Otherness

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157. The entire universe composed of the five  elements, earth, water, fire, air and space, 

appears  only due to our error of mistaking as “I,” the ego that rises from Self like a spark rising from fire, and  which appears as different from Self whose nature is  Being, and as identical with the mind, whose nature  is rising. 

158. The entire appearance of this world that is  seen, 

including we (the individual or jiva) who see it, 

is a mere false appearance like a dream. 

If we  keenly scrutinize the source (the real “I am”) from which the seeing ego rises, and thereby enter the  heart and firmly abide there, the reality will shine forth (and the appearance of the triad – the seer, 

seeing and object seen – will disappear).

~A Light on the Teaching of Ramana Maharshi

Chapter: The Essence of Spiritual Practice

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It is the false identity of the Self with the body that causes the idea of preference, etc. Are you the body? Were you aware of it when you were fast asleep last night? No! What is it that exists now and troubles you? It is 'I'. Get rid of it and be happy.

Sri Ramana MaharshiIt is the false identity of the Self with the body that causes the idea of preference, etc. Are you the body? Were you aware of it when you were fast asleep last night? No! What is it that exists now and troubles you? It is 'I'. Get rid of it and be happy.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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M: When you realise that the distinction between inner and outer is in the mind only, you are no longer afraid.

Q: Such realisation comes and goes with me.

I have not yet reached the immutability of absolute completeness.

M: Well, as long as you believe so, you must go on with your sadhana, to disperse the false idea of not being complete.

Sadhana removes the super-impositions.

When you realise yourself as less than a point in space and time, something too small to be cut and too short-lived to be killed, then, and then only, all fear goes.

When you are smaller than the point of a needle, then the needle cannot pierce you -- you pierce the needle!

~ Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj

"I Am That" - Chapter 90

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