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Ashwin Sriram
"What you are...what you actually are, is being. Being is not the mind thinking. Thinking is a movement, a
motion. Being is the silence that precedes the motion. You cannot see it; you cannot grasp it because you
are it. The feeling that you are. The unadorned naked awareness that is always there, rarely heeded, is
what you always have been, always will be. Cannot not be. You can't look for it, because it is what is
looking. It is like space, you can't see it but everything is in it. Everything is it. So I say to you, 'be aware
when you are unaware,' let its presence warm you, fill you. Be present in the Presence." - Jiddu
Krishnamurti in conversation with actor Terence Stamp

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"Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I am”, and add nothing to it. Be aware of the
stillness that follows the “I am”. Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed being-ness. It is
untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all
creation, all form." - Ramana Maharshi

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That which is to oneself · 17 March 2013 ·
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Ashwin Sriram
"The Self is known to everyone but not clearly. You always exist. The Be-ing is the Self. ‘I am’ is the
name of God. Of all the definitions of God, none is indeed so well put as the Biblical statement “I AM
THAT I AM” in EXODUS (Chap. 3). There are other statements, such as 'Brahmaivaham', 'Aham
Brahmasmi' and 'Soham'. But none is so direct as the name JEHOVAH = I AM. The Absolute Being is
what is - It is the Self. It is God. Knowing the Self, God is known. In fact God is none other than the
Self." - Ramana Maharshi

"... This sense of presence, this consciousness, is it not the primary thing without which nothing else
can happen? Nothing—no thoughts, no concepts—can arise by themselves. No activity can arise if the
sense of presence is not there. The sense of presence does not need any activity of the mind to know
that you are present. You do not have to ask yourself, "Am I present, am I conscious?" There is that
intuitive sense of presence, you know you are present." - Nisargadatta
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