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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Ramana Maharshi

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Effort Endurance Hard Work Perseverance Success
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Fake Idea Oneself Realize
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Creation Ego Existence Perception Try World Yourself
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Community Family Himself Prosperity
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
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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Discover Doubt Existence Finding God Himself Source
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Known Seek Wisdom Yourself
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Equality Guess Knowledge

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