You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
RAMANA MAHARSHISeeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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