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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grasp Mindset Naked Natural Simplicity State Truth
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Powerful Silence Talk Worth
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Hands Ignorance Lose Man
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Avoid Deep Discover Pain Shoes Simplicity Walk World
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Oneself Reality
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Goodness Himself Humility Result
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Death Spirit Touch Transcendence
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Freedom Thinking Yourself
You are already That which you seek.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Inspirational One Liner Search Seek Yourself

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