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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.”

Ramana Maharshi

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Reality World Yourself
If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Ocean Vessel Yourself
The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Body Heart Perspective Universe
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Awake Fall Mindset Quiet Reach Reality Sleep Start Wander Yourself
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Call Consciousness God Name
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
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Achievement Beyond Difference Goal Sea Sight Storm Yourself
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
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong
Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Discover Happiness Immortal Oneself Spirituality Yourself
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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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Happiness Oneself
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
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
True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
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
You are already That which you seek.
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Inspirational One Liner Search Seek Yourself
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Aura Complete Himself Influence People Realize Silence Spiritual
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
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself

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