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Ramana Maharshi

Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Correct Inspirational Light Simplicity Sun Transformation World 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
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Powerful Silence Talk Worth
The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Body Fact Move Oneself World Yourself
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Idea Reality Thinking Time Yourself
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 ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
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.
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Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
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
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Adopt Oneself Return
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Reform Social
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Best Destiny Fate Prevent Silence Yourself
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

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