"Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation."
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"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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"The world is not outside you."
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"To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist."
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"All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only."
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"In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit."
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"Then all this earth shines like one house."
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"Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings."
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"Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind."
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"I see only what you see, but I notice what I see."
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"Self-reform automatically brings about social reform."
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"Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace."
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"It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon."
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"There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment."
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"Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction."
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"The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self."
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"Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope."
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"If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas."
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"The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him."
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"Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births."
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