Can you take a photograph of the Government of Bombay?

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Where do you figure in these atoms?

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Sadhana

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Reflection of the sun in a drop of dew is not the sun

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To whomsoever it is not known - Kenopanishad

यस्यामतं तस्य मतं मतं यस्य न वेद सः । अविज्ञातं विजानतां विज्ञातमविजानताम् ॥ To whomsoever it is not known, to him it is known. To whomsoeve...

You think you were born

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Isn’t it cruel to kill a rice grain?

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Noumenon is the substance, the phenomenon is mere reflection

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Fundamental failure of traditional schools

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The space within the pot

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If a genius scientist made an exact clone of you

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The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads.

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The Grand Design - by Stephen Hawking, Leonard Mlodinow

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Time is in the mind. Space is in the mind.

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Consciousness - the fundamental - Max Planck

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How can an 'appearance' make any 'progress' towards any objective?

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Discard all traditional standards

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Mantra Yoga, Kundalini Awakening, Chakras, Gayatri

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There are no distinctive marks of Jnana - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The road is the goal - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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To expound and propagate concepts is simple, to drop all concepts is difficult and rare.

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You are the substance of consciousness - Ashtavakra Gita

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If the world is false, then the plan and its creator are also false.

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Does this world exist exactly as you perceive?

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The coin - the name and form - is irretrievably lost - never to be re-born

  What is born, the objective body, will, in due course, die; thereafter it will be dissolved, i.e., irrevocably annihilated. The life-force...

The complete steps to self realization

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There are three kinds of people in a “spiritual” train journey

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Investing in 80C instruments may help even if you don’t require them - FreeFincal

Situation where investments in products eligible under section 80C may be beneficial even if the net income is lower than the taxable limit....

One who has transcended the body idea does not need the ananda - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Existence, non-existence, change - Ashtavakra Gita

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Neither presence, nor absence - Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Cannot be perceived by the eyes - Mundaka Upanishad

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Forget the known, but remember that you are the knower

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Like a hole in the paper - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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The Self which pervades all things - Shvetashvatara Upanishad

  The Self which pervades all things, which is the root of self-knowledge and austerity – that is the Truth, the highest mystic doctrine. - ...

You are neither born; nor will die

    Birth and death are nothing but the beginning and ending of a stream of movements in consciousness, interpreted as events in space-time....

It is your private dream world - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Rathakalpana - Kathopanisad

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Walk alone. There is no companionship with the immature. - Buddha

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