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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.

Ramana Maharshi

Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Discover Happiness Immortal Oneself Spirituality Yourself
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Aware Evidence Known Remain Yourself
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Awake Consciousness Heart Light Mindset Person Purity Reflection
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Calm Oneself Peace Realize
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
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Existence Light Oneself Reality
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Existence Fear Object Reason
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Consciousness Limitation Mindset Perfection Yourself

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