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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

Ramana Maharshi

The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Adventure Explorer Happiness Pleasure Risk Seek Thrilling World
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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Action Desire Love Mindset Peace Purity Right
The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Calm Mindset Philosophy Question
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
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
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Distraction Meditation Thinking
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Heart Oneself Realize Transcendence
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Aware Current Intense Oneself
Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Belief Beyond Inspirational Lose Risk
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Force Mindset Oneself Wonder
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
Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Mindset Natural Peace State Yourself
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
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
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Himself Mindset Sage Thinking

Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

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