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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”

Ramana Maharshi

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Oneself Search Solitude
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
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Goodness Realize State Thinking
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Discover Doubt Existence Finding God Himself Source
When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Language Oneself Silence Thinking Understand Universe
To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Happiness Oneself
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Community Family Himself Prosperity
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Adventure Explorer Happiness Pleasure Risk Seek Thrilling World
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direction Ourselves Realize Reveal Thinking
Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Best Destiny Fate Prevent Silence Yourself
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Thinking Way Yourself
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Open Realize Store
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work

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