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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.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Creation Ego Existence Perception Try World Yourself
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
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom Yourself
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Meditation Mindset One Liner
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
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Focus Form Help Meditation Mindset
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
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
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Mindset Natural Peace State Yourself
Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Aware Consciousness Deep Existence Myself
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Attention Ego Sea Source
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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God Himself Image Mental See
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Body Mindset Spirit Spirituality Truth
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Reality World Yourself
The world is not outside you.
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One Liner Perspective World Yourself
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Best Destiny Fate Prevent Silence Yourself
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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End Thinking Way Yourself
Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Grace Heart Imagination Mindset Present Sky Source Yourself
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
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mindset Myself Rise Thinking

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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