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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Deep Existence Manifestation Spirituality
All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Calm Oneself Peace Realize
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Heart Oneself Realize Transcendence
Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Devotion Search Truth Yourself
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Division Mindset Object Perception Sight
Guru, God and Self are One.
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God One Liner Oneself Teacher
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Better Happiness Pleasure Relative Satisfaction
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Affect Food Harmony Mindset Necessary Practice Purity
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

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