HERE and NOW
YOU ARE THAT
Do not try to keep quiet,
do not make being quiet into a task to be performed.
Don't be restless about being quiet, miserable
about being happy.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

One 'believes' that
there is bondage and therefore seeks liberation.
But the fact is that there is no bondage but only Liberation.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
The true Guru (honest person or pointer) will not estrange you from
yourself.
He knows you need nothing, not even him, and is never tired of
reminding you.
But the self-appointed Guru
is more concerned with himself
All that is required for
Freedom is to understand what is being pointed to as Reality.
That is all, nothing else is necessary, no Guru at all, no teacher, no method
and no practice.
The Self
(consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others.
All that is necessary is to know its existence in you.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
Here are few quotes from
other people that have re-cognized their ordinary everyday true nature.
Only ignorance is the 'veil', nothing else is present but a cloud of acquired
ignorance from others.
Simply remove ignorance about yourself with understanding and voila!
You will only laugh at yourself because you will realize that you are and always
been the Self.
The feeling that 'I' have
not realised is the obstruction to realisation.
In fact it is already realised, there is nothing more to be realised.
Otherwise, the
realisation will be new, it has not existed so far, it must take place hereafter.
What is born will also die. If realisation be not eternal it is not worth
having.
Therefore what we seek is
NOT that which must happen afresh.
It is only that which is eternal but not now known due to obstructions, it is
that we seek.
All that we need do is to remove the obstruction.
That which is eternal is not known to be so
because of ignorance.
Ignorance is the
obstruction.
Get over this ignorance and all will be well.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
To point to the simplicity of this timeless message of non-duality or no
separation
and most of all, no becoming or reaching anything new whatsoever, nothing afresh
or special,
but simply removing ignorance, nothing else and that is realizing that you are
already Free,
you simply don't know it, understanding is realizing that you are already that.
You will only laugh at yourself, that is the only 'Realization'.
At one stage you
will laugh at yourself for trying to discover the Self.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
No one can give you anything new for Freedom, because it is 'you'.
Being oneself naturally is always being 'Realized' and Free, aware of being
present is IT.
To simply be aware of oneself is constant or unchanging consciousness and 'I'
am.
One's unchanging being-ness or 'I' am-ness is at once being and consciousness.
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The Guru cannot
give you anything new, which you dont have already.
Removal of the notion that we have not realised the Self is all that is required.
We are always the Self, only we dont realise it.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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Liberation is our
very nature. We are that.
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is
our real nature.
It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of
the false notion that we are bound.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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To find 'you'
involves neither time nor means, the one who is dependent on seeking is veiled.
To seek 'you' is a remnant of separation and dispersion.
~ Abdullah Ansari ~
(11 th century)
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Realisation is not
the acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty.
It is only removal of all camouflage.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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So I say the Self
(consciousness) is not reached.
You are the Self, you are already that.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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You, being the Self (consciousness), want to know
how to attain the Self (consciousness).
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Make no effort, your
effort is the bondage.
All that is required to realize the Self (consciousness) is to be still.
What can be easier than that?
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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No one denies ones
own existence
any more than one denies ones eyes, although one cannot see them.
The trouble lies with your desire to objectify the Self (consciousness), in the same way
as you objectify your eyes when you place a mirror before them.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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Ego is not!
Otherwise do you admit of two selves?
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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If you seek the ego you will
find, it does not exist.
That is the way to get rid of it.
Look for it and it will not be found.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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Be content with
what you are sure of.
And the only thing you can be sure of is 'I' am. The only fact you are sure of is that you are.
The only clue you have is your certainty of being.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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If you want to be
free. Get to know your real self.
It (consciousness) has no form, no appearance, no root, no basis, no abode,
but is lively and buoyant. Therefore when you look for it, you become further
from it.
When you seek it, you turn away from it all the more.
~ Linji ~
(Chinese 9 th century)
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The state of
self-realisation, 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.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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The Self
(consciousness) you seek to know is truly your self.
Your supposed ignorance causes you needless grief
like that of the ten foolish men who grieved
at the loss of the tenth man,
who was never lost.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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Realisation is
nothing to be gained afresh, it is already there.
All that is necessary is to get rid of the thought I have not realised.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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For whoever seeks
God (consciousness) in some special way,
will gain the way and lose God who is hidden in the way.
But whoever seeks God without any special way,
finds Him as He really is... He (consciousness) is Life itself.
~ Meister Eckhart ~
(13th century)
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Because you seek
true (constant/unchanging) consciousness.
Where can you find it? Can you attain it outside yourself?
You have to find it internally. Therefore you are directed inward.
The heart is the seat of consciousness or
consciousness itself.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the heart or the seat of consciousness,
it is all the same.
The point to be grasped is that this heart means the very core of ones being.
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The Self
(consciousness) is God.
'I' am is God.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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All sentient (conscious)
beings are essentially 'Buddhas'.
As with water and ice, there is no ice without water.
(No Life or existence without consciousness)
Not knowing how close the truth is, we seek it far away.
What a pity!
~ Hakuin Ekaku Zenji ~
( Japan 18th century)
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Reality is at once being and
consciousness.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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The Self
(consciousness) is not something to be acquired from others.
All that is necessary is to know its existence in you.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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The Guru will say only what I am saying now.
It is impossible for anyone to get what he has not got already.
Even if he gets any such thing, it will go as it came. What comes will also go.
What always 'is' will alone remain.
People want to see the Self (consciousness) as something new.
But it (consciousness) is eternal and remains the same all along.
They desire to see it as a blazing light etc.
How can it be so?
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There is no one
that does not say 'I' am.
The wrong knowledge of 'I' am the body is the cause of all mischief.
This wrong knowledge must go.
That is the Realization.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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The Kingdom is in you.
And if you know yourself
then you know the Kingdom of God.
~ Jesus of Nazareth ~
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On enquiry 'who' is
bound?
The notion of bondage vanishes and so does that of Liberation.
The one eternally free alone remains self-revealed.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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It is pure
awareness of being. It is that 'I' am you know so well.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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What have you to wait for when it is already here
and now?
You have to only look & see. Look at your self, at your own being.
You know that
you are and you like it. Abandon all imagining, that is all.
Do not rely on time, time is death, who waits dies. Life is now only!
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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Just be aware that you are
and remain aware.
You are aware anyhow, you need not try to be.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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'I' am is first
hand and needs no proof.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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I' am is the goal and final Reality.![]()
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What you need is to
be aware of being aware.
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~
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The ultimate Truth
is so simple.
~ Ramana Maharshi ~
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