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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Ego Freedom Ignorance Sadness Trouble Yourself
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Death Doubt Ego Hold Source Thinking
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Failure Silence State Word
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Care Future Live Present Yourself
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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Action Desire Love Mindset Peace Purity Right

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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