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'Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought 'I' is the first thought.'
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It is said that a good brotherly feeling with a sense of equality is the supreme goal to be reached collectively by all members of the community.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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… just as the limb gives assistance to the body, likewise the member of the community helps the community and reigns supreme.
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Having set one's family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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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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16. 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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20. The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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2. That, from where all the activities of the embodied beings emerge, is mentioned as the heart. The description of its form is conceptual.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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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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18. 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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12. The world is none other than the mind. The mind is none other than the heart. Therefore the entire story finishes in the heart.
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9. Even when the sensory objects to be known are in the proximity, when the difference is not taken in, the mind does not cause a break in Yoga.
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10. Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day.
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I want you to dive consciously into the Self, i.e., into the Heart.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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21. During that time, the embodied person does not know the attainment in the heart. It is known in the Samadhi. The difference in name is due to the difference in cause.
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