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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

Ramana Maharshi

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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
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
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Creator God Knowledge Known Valid
You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Access Existence Heart Mountain Search Silence Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Bliss Happiness Oneself
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
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Existence Oneself See
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Achievement Beyond Difference Goal Sea Sight Storm Yourself
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Himself Mindset Sage Thinking
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Karma Oneself Truth Understand
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
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
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

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