Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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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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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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