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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Ramana Maharshi

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Suffering Yourself
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Bliss Enjoyment Investigate Mindset Thinking
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
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
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
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
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Ego Evil Goodness Subject
By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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Art Path Reach Stage Surrender Yourself
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Body Mindset Spirit Spirituality Truth
Knowing the Self, God is known.
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God Known One Liner Oneself Spirituality
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
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Attention Ego Sea Source

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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