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The world is not outside you.

Ramana Maharshi

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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Beyond Consciousness Investigation Limitation Mindset Myself Purity
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
There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Achievement Creation Destiny Destruction Freedom Truth
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
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
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
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.
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Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
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
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Aware Knowledge Known Wisdom Yourself
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart 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
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Heart Mindset Radiant Reflection
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself

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