There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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