You must achieve liberation during your life time. Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'Godalways during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death. Ramana Maharshi
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One of the most important things in life is liberation. If you don’t get it until after your death, it’s not so bad. But if you don’t get it during your lifetime, then you’re doomed for eternity. You must achieve liberation during your life time.

Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, you must think of god at least at the time of death, since one becomes what he thinks of at the time of death. But unless all your life you have been thinking of God, unless you have accustomed yourself to dhyana of 'Godalways during life, it would not at all be possible for you think of God at the time of death.

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  1. Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

  2. Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

  3. Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.

  4. Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

  5. Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

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