You are already

enlightened.
Sayings of Sri Bhagavan Ramana Maharshi

Your nature is Peace and Happiness.

Thoughts are the obstacles to realization.

Ones meditation or concentration is meant to get rid of

obstacles and not to gain the Self.
Does anyone remain apart from the Self?
No!
The true nature of the Self is declared to be Peace.

If the same peace is not found, the non-finding is only a

thought which is alien to the Self.
One practices meditation only to get rid of these alien fancies.
So, then, a thought must be quelled as soon as it rises.
Whenever a thought arises, do not be carried away by it.

You become aware of the body when you forget the Self.
But can you forget the Self ?
Being the Self how can you forget it?
There must be two selves for one to forget the other.
It is absurd.

So the Self is not depressed; it is not imperfect: it is ever

happy.
The contrary feeling is a mere thought which has actually no
stamina in it. Be rid of thoughts.
Why should one attempt meditation?
Being the Self one remains always realized, only be free from
thoughts.

But for most of us, it is not easy to remain free from thougths,
they come in a rage, one after the other from nowhere, to
torment our inherent peace. For this there is an easy practice
the practice of simply Being - the next slides point to that
through sayings of Sri Bhagwan Ramana Maharshi
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Look, the Self is only Be-ing, not being this or that. It is

simple BEING. Be - and there is an end of the ignorance.
If you are free from thoughts and yet aware, you are That
Perfect BEING.
BEING the Self one remains always realized, only be free
from thoughts.

You are That. Can you ever remain apart from the
Self? To be yourself requires no effort since you are
always That.
There cannot be a break in your BEING .
The state we call realization is simple BEING oneself,
not knowing anything or becoming anything.

BE still and know that I am God. Here

stillness is total surrender without a vestige of
individuality. Stillness will prevail and there
will be no agitation of mind. Agitation of
mind is the cause of
desire, the sense of doership and personality.
If that is stopped there is quiet. There
Knowing means BEING . It is not the
relative knowledge involving the triads,
knowledge, subject and object.

Learn first what you are. This requires no sastras, no

scholarship. This is simple experience. The state of BEING is
now and here all along.
Now you are told to hold fast to this I. If it is done the
eternal BEING will reveal Itself.
BEING That, what do you want to know? Are there two
selves for the one to know the other?
There is really nothing to witness. IT is simple BEING.

But can you forget the Self?

BEING the Self how can you forget it?
There must be two selves for one to forget the other. It is
absurd.
So the Self is not depressed; it is not imperfect: it is ever
happy.

Find out from where this false I arises.

Then it will disappear.
You will then be only what you are, that is, Absolute BEING .

To BE is to realize - Hence I AM THAT I AM. I AM is Siva.

Therefore enquire Who am I?
Sink deep within and abide as the Self.
That is Siva as BE-ing.

Whose is the doubt? Who is it that wants a course of action?

Find the doubter.
If you hold the doubter the doubts will disappear.
Having lost hold of the Self the thoughts afflict you; the world is
seen, doubts arise, also anxiety for the future.
Hold fast to the Self, these will disappear.

To conclude we can say our true nature is Peace in

the form of simple BEING and only thoughts create
the illusion that we are suffering. The most powerful
antidote for thought is again just simple BEING.
Om Shanthi
May there be Peace everywhere.

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