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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

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

Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Existence Heart Realize Seek
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
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Karma Oneself Truth Understand
The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Oneself World
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Meditation Mindset One Liner
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Equality Guess Knowledge
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Distraction Meditation Oneself Weakness
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Problem Search See Solution
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
To 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Current Intense Oneself
Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Evidence Known Remain Yourself
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Realize State

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.

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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.

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