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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.

Ramana Maharshi

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
The source of the ego is God.
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Ego God One Liner Source
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Meditation Mindset One Liner
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
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
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Care Future Present Trouble Yourself
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself

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