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Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.”
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Seeing 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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 MaharshiRamana Maharshi All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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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