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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

Ramana Maharshi

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Follow Rise Thinking
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Action Carry Day Flow Life Meditation Need Responsibility Work Yourself
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Bliss Enjoyment Investigate Mindset Thinking
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Happiness Oneself Search Solitude
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Body Heart Science Summary
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
You are already That which you seek.
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Inspirational One Liner Search Seek Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
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
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Alone Ego Ignorance Remain Remove
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Force Mindset Oneself Wonder
Knowing the Self, God is known.
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God Known One Liner Oneself Spirituality
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Active Control Mindset Realize Shine Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ocean Vessel Yourself

Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.

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