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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Ramana Maharshi

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
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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End Thinking Way Yourself
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Disturbance Mindset Peace Thinking
The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Existence Light Oneself Reality
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Existence Oneself Reality
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
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
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Body Death Spirit Touch Transcendence
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
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 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
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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End Love One Liner Wisdom
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

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

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