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The conception that there is a
goal and a path to it is wrong. We are the goal
or peace always. To get rid of the notion that
we are not peace is all that is required.
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The mind is nothing other than
the `I'-thought. The mind and the ego are one
and the same.
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The birth of the `I'-thought is
one's own birth, its death is the person's
death. After the `I'-thought has arisen, the
wrong identity with the body arises. Get rid of
the `I'-thought. So long as `I' is alive there
is grief. When `I' ceases to exist there is no
grief.
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See whose thoughts they are.
They will vanish. They have their root in the
single `I'-thought. Hold it and they will
disappear.
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The ego's phenomenal existence
is transcended when you dive into the source
from where the `I'-thought rises.
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The thought `l am this body of
flesh and blood' is the one thread on which are
strung the various other thoughts. Therefore, if
we turn inwards enquiring `Where is this I?' all
thoughts (including the `I'-thought) will come
to an end and Self-knowledge will then
spontaneously shine forth.
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The attempt to destroy the ego
or the mind through sedans(practices) other than
atma-vichara(self inquiry) is just like the
thief pretending to be a policeman to catch the
thief, that is, himself. Atma-vichara (self
inquiry) alone can reveal the truth that neither
the ego nor the mind really exists, and enable
one to realize the pure, undifferentiated being
of the Self or the absolute. Having realized the
Self, nothing remains to be known, because it is
perfect bliss, it is the all.
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Attention to one's own Self,
which is ever shining as `I', the one undivided
and pure reality, is the only raft with which
the individual, who is deluded by thinking `I am
the body', can cross the ocean of unending
births.
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The final obstacle in meditation
is ecstasy; you feel great bliss and happiness
and want to stay in that ecstasy. Do not yield
to it but pass on to the next stage which is
great calm. The calm is higher than ecstasy and
it merges into samadhi.
