"Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self."
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"Knowing the Self, God is known."
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"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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"An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart."
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"See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation."
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"If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside."
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"It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free."
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"Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. 'I am' is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization."
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"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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"Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized."
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"Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required."
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"Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?"
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"He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye."
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"Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self."
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"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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"If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful."
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"The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it."
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"What is illusion? M.: To whom is the illusion? Find it out. Then illusion will vanish. Generally people want to know about illusion and do not examine to whom it is. It is foolish. Illusion is outside and unknown. But the seeker is considered to be known and is inside. Find out what is immediate, intimate, instead of trying to find out what is distant and unknown."
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"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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"The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist."
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