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Love is verily the heart of all religions.

Ramana Maharshi

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
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Reform Social
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Alone Ego Ignorance Remain Remove
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Myself Name Philosophy
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Bliss Existence Heart Realize Seek
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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Doubt Forever Nature Need Oneself Realize
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
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Freedom Thinking Yourself
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Heart Message Need Talk
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Call Consciousness God Name

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