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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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 observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Aware Observation Reveal Truth Willing
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
Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Absence Doubt Rise Surrender
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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Doubt Forever Nature Need Oneself Realize
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Consciousness God Manifestation Mindset
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Hands Ignorance Lose Man
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Direction Expression Heart Knowledge Learning Meaning Mindset
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Centre Ego Negative Oneself Quality Realize
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Creator God Knowledge Known Valid
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
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
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
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Avoid Deep Discover Pain Shoes Simplicity Walk World
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

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