Ramana Maharshi

we see that all the beings in the world have two different hearts. One of these is worth acceptance, the other worth rejection. Listen how they differ. The organ called the heart placed somewhere in the chest of the physical body is worth rejection.

The heart which is of the form of pure awareness is worth acceptance. It is both within and without. It has no inside or out. That indeed is the essential heart.

and in it all this world abides. It is the mirror in which all things are seen. It is the source of all wealth.

Hence, awareness may be termed the heart of all beings. The heart is not a part of the perishable body, inert like a stone.

Therefore, by the practice of merging the ego in the pure heart, which is all awareness, the tendencies of the mind, as well as the breath, will be subdued.

By constantly meditating in the heart, that pure unconditioned awareness that is Shiva,

That am I. Remove all attachment of the ego.

having investigated the various states of being and seizing firmly by the mind that state of supreme reality. Play your part, O hero, ever in the world. You have known the truth which is at the heart of all kinds of appearances,

without ever turning away from that reality. Play in the world, oh hero, as if in love with it. Seeming to have enthusiasm and delight,

seeming to have excitement and aversion, seeming to exercise initiative and perseverance, and yet, without attachment, play, O hero, in the world.

Released from all bonds of attachment and with equanimity of mind, acting outwardly in all situations in accordance with the part you have assumed, play as you please, O hero, in the world.

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who by knowledge of the Atman is established in the truth, one who has vanquished the five senses. Call them the fire of knowledge, the yielder of the thunderbolt of knowledge, the conqueror of time and the hero who has slain death.

Just as on earth with the coming of spring the tree shines in fresh beauty of foliage, even so one who has seen the truth will shine with growing lustre, intelligence and power.

Like one to whom a tale is told while their thoughts are wandering far away, the mind which is free from attachment is inactive while it acts.

but the mind immersed in attachments is active, though it does not act, like the sleeper lying motionless here, who in their dream climbs a hill and tumbles down.

As the movement of the cart, its standing still, and its being unyoked to the passenger asleep in the cart, even so are action, contemplation,

and sleep to the sage asleep in the cart of their body. For one who seeks waking, dreaming, or sleep, there is a state beyond these three. A wakeful sleep

a fourth state called the turia. But because this turia state alone is real, and the three apparent states are illusory, the fourth state is indeed the transcendental state.

The statement that the jnani retains perub the karma, while free of the other forms of karma.