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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

All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Calm Oneself Peace Realize
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
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Powerful Silence Talk Worth
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Heart Illuminate Light Mindset Oneself Reach Reflection Yourself
Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Illusion Realize Yourself
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Heart Mindset Radiant Reflection
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Guru, God and Self are One.
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God One Liner Oneself Teacher
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace

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.

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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.

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