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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Bliss Existence Heart Realize Seek
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
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Goodness Realize State Thinking
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
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 ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grasp Mindset Naked Natural Simplicity State Truth
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
No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Effort Endurance Hard Work Perseverance Success
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
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Aware Consciousness Death Doubt Ego Hold Source Thinking
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Division Mindset Object Perception Sight
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

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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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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