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GOD

“Isvaro gururatmeti” (The Self is the God and Guru). A person seeks
happiness and learns that God alone can make one happy. He prays to God and worships Him.

God hears his prayers, and responds by appearing in human shape as a
Master in order to speak the language of the devotee and make him
understand the Reality. The Master is thus God manifest as human being. He
gives out His experience so that the seeker might also gain it. His
experience is to abide as the Self. The Self
is within. God, Master and the Self are therefore seeming stages in the
Realisation of the Truth.

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GOD

A visitor asked: Sri Bhagavan said last night that God is guiding us. Then
why should we make an effort to do anything?

M.: Who asks you to do so? If there was that faith in the guidance of God
this question would not have arisen.

D.: The fact is that God guides us. Then what is the use of these
instructions to people?

M.: They are for those who seek instructions. If you are firm in your
belief in the guidance of God, stick to it, and do not concern yourself
with what happens around you. Furthermore, there may be happiness or
misery. Be equally indifferent to both and abide in the faith of God. That
will be so only when one’s faith is strong that God looks after all of us.

source: Talk 596

Om Namo Bhagavate Sri Ramanaya!

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Bliss is not added to your nature, it is merely revealed as your true and natural state, eternal and imperishable. ~ Sri Ramana in Maharshi's Gospel.

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When other thoughts arise, ask “To whom? To me? Where does this ‘I’ arise?” Thus diving inwards, if one traces the source of the mind and reaches the Heart, one becomes the Sovereign Lord of the Universe. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

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There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity. That One – the Supreme Truth – is ever present everywhere in all circumstances. ~ Sri Anandamayi Ma    アナンダマイマーの言葉です

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D.: Is success not dependent on Guru’s Grace?

M.: Yes, it is. Is not your practice itself due to such Grace? The fruits are the result of the practice and follow it automatically. There is a stanza in Kaivalya which says, “O Guru! You have been always with me watching me through several reincarnations, and ordaining my course until I was liberated.” The Self manifests externally as Guru when occasion arises; otherwise He is always within, doing the needful.

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The mind is by nature restless. Begin liberating it from its restlessness; give it peace; make it free from distractions; train it to look inward; make this a habit.