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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

Ramana Maharshi

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
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
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Earth Home Oneself Shine
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Goodness Himself Humility Result
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
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 what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Help Meditation Thinking Yourself
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
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

Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

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