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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Ego Myself Source Thinking
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
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
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
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Call Consciousness God Name
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Goodness Himself Humility Result
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Mindset Natural Peace State Yourself
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Death Natural Present Result
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
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
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
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
Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Heart Love Oneself Religion
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Bliss Peace Silence Truth
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Hands Ignorance Lose Man
True silence is really endless speech.
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End Silence Talk True
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
Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Earth Home Oneself Shine
The source of the ego is God.
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Ego God One Liner Source
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself

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