Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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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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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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