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“Before you despair, seek life-giving force.”
“Before you despair, seek life-giving force.” Everyone believes they can conquer the world through their own efforts. When external frustration drives them inwards, they realize that there is a power greater within than themselves. Saying by Sri Ramana Maharshi Before despair drives a person inward, he can avoid frustration if he seeks the power that…
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“Take only what you need; the rest is only a burden.”
“Take only what you need; the rest is only a burden” is a saying from Sufi mystic Imam Ali. The real needs of each person include their body, breathing, and awareness. The rest is a mind filled with a bundle of unnecessary thoughts, knowledge that has occupied many Vedas, and the state of ecstasy caused…
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“To realize the Oneness, the Wholeness”
“To realize the Oneness, the Wholeness” Talk as much philosophy as you like, worship as many gods as you please, observe ceremonies, and sing devotional hymns, but liberation will never be achieved, even after a hundred aeons, without realizing the Oneness, the Wholeness, and perceiving the all-encompassing and ever-present pure Shivam within oneself. -ADI SHANKARACHARYA…
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“The true self cannot be known by anything.”
“The true self cannot be known by anything.”The Self is self-luminous. It does not need anything else to know itself.” – Sri Ramana Maharshi, Talk 146 The soul shines by itself: Whatever arises within everyone without our effort, that would be the soul. That which arises is as the thought ‘I.’. As stated in the…
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“Convergence vs. being”
“Convergence is our nature (i.e., in existence). There is effort now, but it ceases after soul realization.” Conversations with Ramana Maharshi: 491 This conversation shows that effort is not about ‘being in what already is.’ Rather, it is about being unhindered in the expanding existence that arises once the effort of convergence disappears. Sri Gurupyo…
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“One religion, one ideology”
“One religion, one ideology”“Without the body, the world is not. Without mind, the body is not. Without awareness, mind is not. And without being there is no awareness.” – Ramana Maharshi Interpretation: Without the body, the world does not exist; however, during the waking state, the awareness about this body makes the world apparent. Without…
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