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True silence is really endless speech.

Ramana Maharshi

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
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
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
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Heart Mindset Radiant Reflection
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Death Doubt Ego Hold Source Thinking
Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Care Future Present Trouble 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
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Achievement Creation Destiny Destruction Freedom Truth
I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Mindfulness Myself Notice See Yourself
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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End Love One Liner Wisdom
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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God Known See
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Spirit Vision World Yourself
The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Ego Myself Source Thinking
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Goodness Himself Humility Result
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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God Oneself Realize Suffering Way
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Distraction Meditation Oneself Weakness
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality

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