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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
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
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Consciousness Limitation Mindset Perfection Yourself
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Effort Forever Herself Identity Natural Simplicity State Wrong
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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Doubt Forever Nature Need Oneself Realize
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
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
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
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Calm Oneself Peace Realize
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
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Soul Structure Subtle
Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Activity Ego Light Notice See
God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Fact God Grace Himself Power Shine
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 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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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself

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