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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 Maharshi

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Oneself Realize Suffering Way
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
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 solution to your problem is to see who has it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Problem Search See Solution
For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bond Imagination Knowledge See
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself
Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Call Consciousness God Name
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Equality Guess Knowledge
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Known See
By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Art Path Reach Stage Surrender Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Open Realize Store
He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Body Eyes God Himself Infinite Live Temple Universe
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Oneself Remain Shine
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Existence See World
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason

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.

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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.

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