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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Help Meditation Thinking Yourself
We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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Ourselves Perspective Philosophy World
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Active Impression Meditation Mindset Pursuit Thinking
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Distraction Meditation Thinking
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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Ego Loss Reality Shine Simplicity
God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Fact God Grace Himself Power Shine
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Existence Oneself Place
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Community Family Himself Prosperity
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ideas Peace Time
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself

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