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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Ramana Maharshi

You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Effort Endurance Hard Work Perseverance Success
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
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Consciousness Limitation Mindset Perfection Yourself
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Dive Ego Existence Myself Rise Source Transcendence
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
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

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 own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Greatness Realize Service Yourself
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Action Activity Character Fast Forever Himself Sage
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Care Future Live Present Yourself
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
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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God Mindset Purity River Sea Search Yourself

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