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There are no problems. They're just experiences. And if you look at the experience in the right way you will transcend that experience and become free of it totally and completely. But if you react in the wrong way to the problem so-called, you may win or find a solution but you will have to go through another problem of a similar state sooner or later. You will have to go through it again and again and again until you transcend it completely by not reacting to it. This is an important point to remember.

Your problem is at a certain level. A certain level of mind. If you believe in your problem, if you're fearful of your problem, if you react to your problem you have not broken out of that level. Even though you may appear to come up with some kind of solution, you are still at that level of consciousness where the problem exists. Therefore you will have to go through it again and again and again. The idea in other words is to rise higher than the problem. To rise higher than the problem. For the problem is below you, beneath you and you are free of it completely.

Robert Adams

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"The jnani’s state is one which transcends the mind. It cannot be described by the mind. Only Silence can correctly describe this state and its characteristics. Silence is more effective than speech. From Silence came the ego, from the ego came thought, and from thought came speech. So if speech is effective, how much more effective must be its original source?"

~ Ramana Maharshi

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Disciple:    

If the jnani and the ajnani 

perceive the world in like manner, 

where is the difference between them?

Maharshi:    

Seeing the world, 

the jnani sees the Self which is the substratum of all that is seen.... 

The ajnani, 

whether he sees the world or not, 

is ignorant of his true Being, the Self....

Sri Ramana Maharshi.....

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SOCIETY AND THE GOAL OF MANKIND 

D. What is my duty to society? What should be my relation to it? 

M. You are a limb of society. Society is the body, individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech, and action. One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others. 

D. Some speak high of shanti, peace; some praise shakti, power. Which of the two is good for society? y? 

M. For the individual, peace is absolutely essential; power is necessary for the upkeep of society. By power, one has to uplift society and then establish peace therein. 

D. What is the goal towards which mankind on earth is moving? 

M. Real equality and fraternity form the true goal; for then, Supreme Peace may reign on earth, and the earth herself can be a single household. 

D. The ideal is grand. But if great men, jnanis are quiet in the caves, how can society be helped? d? 

M. I have often said that Self-attainment, atma-labha, is the greatest good for society. 

- Sat Darshana Bhashya and Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi