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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.

Ramana Maharshi

Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Illusion Realize Yourself
Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Better Happiness Pleasure Relative Satisfaction
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
Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Adopt Oneself Return
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Light Seek Work Yourself
The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Focus Light Object Reveal
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Ego Evil Goodness Subject
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Creator God Knowledge Known Valid
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
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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Concept Deep Existence Follow God Himself Philosophy Problem Solution Thinking Wisdom
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
Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Desire Fact Grace Work Yourself
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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God Oneself Realize Suffering Way
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Aware Current Intense Oneself
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Focus Heart Learning Mindset Point Silence True
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Belief Beyond Inspirational Lose Risk
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Existence Oneself Reality
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
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

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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