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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?

Ramana Maharshi

Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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Consciousness Heart Purity Truth Ultimate
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
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Body Heart Perspective Universe
Knowing the Self, God is known.
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God Known One Liner Oneself Spirituality
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
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Aware Current Intense Oneself
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
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
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Focus Light Object Reveal
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Aspiration Present State Thinking Yourself
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Oneself Remain Shine

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