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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”

Ramana Maharshi

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Consciousness God Manifestation Mindset
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Body Heart Science Summary
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Ego Heart Myself Thinking
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Focus Form Help Meditation Mindset
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Happiness Oneself
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Hands Ignorance Lose Man
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Ideas Peace Time

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