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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.

Ramana Maharshi

The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Problem Search See Solution
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Awake Consciousness Heart Light Mindset Person Purity Reflection
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Mindfulness Myself Notice See Yourself
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
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.
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Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
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
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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Ego Loss Reality Shine Simplicity
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison

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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