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Knowing the Self, God is known.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
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
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
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace Yourself
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Dreams Present Reality Sleep
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
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Equality Guess Knowledge
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Bliss Existence Heart Realize Seek
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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God Himself Image Mental See
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
Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Heart Love Oneself Religion
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Bond Imagination Knowledge See
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Focus Light Object Reveal

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