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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

Ramana Maharshi

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
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Failure Silence State Word
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Moments Truth
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Himself Mindset Sage Thinking
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Soul Structure Subtle
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Feeling Finding Search Stay Thinking
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
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Ego Evil Goodness Subject
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Bliss Peace Silence Truth
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Active Impression Meditation Mindset Pursuit Thinking
When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Calm Mindset Peace
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
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Aspiration Present State Thinking Yourself
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
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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Finding Peace Possible Wind Worry Yourself
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Grace Heart Yourself
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Attention Ego Sea Source
Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Disturbance Mindset Peace Thinking
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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God Illusion Reality Universe World
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Mindset Sage Universe

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