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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

Ramana Maharshi

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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Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Structure
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
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
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
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Aura Complete Himself Influence People Realize Silence Spiritual
We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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Ourselves Perspective Philosophy World
God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Fact God Grace Himself Power Shine
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
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Ego Existence Oneself Place
Silence is also conversation.
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Conversation One Liner Silence
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Bliss Peace Silence Truth
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
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Creator God Knowledge Known Valid
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Goodness Himself Humility Result
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
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
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
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Reform Social
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Himself Mindset Sage Thinking
God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Mindset Sage Universe

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