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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.

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
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