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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.

Ramana Maharshi

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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Active Impression Meditation Mindset Pursuit Thinking
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Action Carry Day Flow Life Meditation Need Responsibility Work Yourself
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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God Oneself World
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
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Ego Freedom Ignorance Sadness Trouble Yourself
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Greatness Realize Service Yourself
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
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
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Moments Truth
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Consciousness God Manifestation Mindset
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.
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Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Heart Mindset Radiant Reflection

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