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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

Ramana Maharshi

To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Goodness Himself Humility Result
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Distraction Meditation Oneself Weakness
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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God Myself Name Philosophy
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Direction Expression Heart Knowledge Learning Meaning Mindset
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Ocean Vessel Yourself
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
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Body Fact Move Oneself World Yourself
Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Better Happiness Pleasure Relative Satisfaction
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
Knowing the Self, God is known.
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God Known One Liner Oneself Spirituality
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go

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