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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

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
The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Creation Ego Existence Perception Try World Yourself
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
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Ego Evil Goodness Subject
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Heart Message Need Talk
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
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
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Alone Change Existence Forever Reality
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
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Greatness Meditation Obstacle
You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Discover Investigation Leadership Problem Question Solve Yourself
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Happiness Oneself
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
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
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Experience Perfection Reality Silence

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