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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.

Ramana Maharshi

You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Discover Investigation Leadership Problem Question Solve Yourself
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace 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
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Heart Love Oneself Religion
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
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
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
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Acceptance Let Go
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Active Control Mindset Realize Shine Yourself
What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Alone Deep Let Go Philosophy Remain Stay Wisdom
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Bond Imagination Knowledge See
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
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
We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Ideas Peace Time

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