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Killing the innocent body is certainly wrong. Suicide must be committed on the mind, where the suffering is deposited, and not on the body, which is insentient and feels nothing. The mind is the real culprit, being the creator of the anguish which tempts to suicide, but by an error of judgement, the innocent, insentient body is punished for it.

Sri Ramana Maharshi

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BHAGAVAN IN CONSCIOUS IMMORTALITY:

“Concentration on That which is free from Vasanas and yet their Core”

Q: Can I realize the Self? It looks so difficult?

Bhagavan: You are already the Self. Therefore realization is for everyone.

It knows no difference in the aspirants. The very doubt: ‘if I can realize' or the feeling 'I have not realized’, are the obstacles. Be free from these also.

Q: Nevertheless unless I have the experience, how can I be free from these conflicting thoughts?

Bhagavan: These are also in the mind. They are there because you have identified yourself with the body. If this false identity drops away, ignorance will vanish and Truth be revealed.

Control of desire and meditation are interdependent. They must go on side by side… to check the mind being projected out (vairagya) and keep it turned inward (abyasa). There is the struggle between control and meditation going on constantly within. Meditation will in due course be successful.

Others have done so as well. Therefore believe it. They did so because they believed they could. It can be done by concentration on That which is free from vasanas and yet is their core.

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Isn’t everything a hallucination? 

It’s only because we don’t recognize this hallucination as a hallucination that we wander around in life and death.

Everyone is talking about “reality”, but this is only a dream. It’s nothing more than the reality inside a dream. Good! When people are talking about revolution and war, we think that something really special is going on, but what is it besides struggling inside a dream? 

When you die, you recognize your dream. Someone who doesn’t put an end to dreaming before then is an ordinary person.

- Kodo Sawaki, 'To You'

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He who gives himself up to the Self that is God is the most excellent devotee. Giving one self up to God, means constantly remembering the Self. Whatever burdens are thrown on God, He bears them all. 

Since the supreme power of God makes all things move, why should we, without submitting ourselves to it, constantly worry ourselves with thoughts as to what should be done and how, and what should not be done and how not? 

We know that the train carries all loads, so after getting on it why should we carry our small luggage on our head to our discomfort, instead of putting it down in the train and feeling at ease?

- Sri Ramana Maharshi

I am Body

REMOVE THE 'I-AM THE BODY'-IDEA

Annamalai Swami: Bhagavan is always present, inside you and in front of you. If you don't cover the vision of Bhagavan with your ego, that will be enough. 

The ego is the 'I am the body' idea. Remove this idea and you shine as the Self. 

That is the only thing you need to do in this life. The various events of your life - all the things that are going to happen to you - they are all destined. If you don't want them to happen, they will still occur, even if you try to avoid them. And if you want things that are not in your destiny, they won't come to you. 

There is no point worrying about the outer events of your life because you can exercise no control over these destined activities. Your responsibility in this life is to see who you are, not to rewrite your life script.

ANNAMALAI SWAMI - FINAL TALKS p. 36

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Realizing that which remains after the i 

has ceased to exist, that alone is excellent Tapas Thus said Lord Ramana.

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