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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.

Ramana Maharshi

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
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
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Death Doubt Ego Hold Source Thinking
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Aware Consciousness Deep Existence Myself
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
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Meditation Mindset One Liner
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Powerful Silence Talk Worth
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
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
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
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom Yourself
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
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Beyond Consciousness Investigation Limitation Mindset Myself Purity
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Mindset Sage Universe
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Devotion Search Truth Yourself
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Freedom Thinking Yourself
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Disturbance Mindset Peace Thinking
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
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
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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God Mindset Purity River Sea Search Yourself
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Karma Oneself Truth Understand

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