Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIKnowing the Self, God is known.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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