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

Ramana Maharshi

Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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End Love One Liner Wisdom
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
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
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Correct Inspirational Light Simplicity Sun Transformation World Yourself
Guru, God and Self are One.
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God One Liner Oneself Teacher
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom Yourself
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
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Best Destiny Fate Prevent Silence Yourself
Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Meditation Mindset Oneself Strength Time
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Mindset Natural Peace State Yourself
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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God Myself Name Philosophy
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Ego Heart Myself Thinking
As you are, so is the world.
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One Liner Perspective World Yourself
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Existence Fear Object Reason
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Aware Knowledge Known Wisdom Yourself
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Heart Illuminate Light Mindset Oneself Reach Reflection Yourself
No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Effort Endurance Hard Work Perseverance Success
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Reality World Yourself
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Focus Form Help Meditation Mindset
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution

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