Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
RAMANA MAHARSHI
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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 MaharshiRamana Maharshi The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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