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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.

Ramana Maharshi

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

Discover Investigation Leadership Problem Question Solve Yourself
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Follow Rise Thinking
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Happiness Open Realize Store
We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Appearance Attention Light Object Pay Reveal
Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Heart Love Oneself Religion
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Philosophy Search Seek Wisdom Yourself
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World 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
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Peace Silence Truth
There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Moments Truth
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Attention Ego Sea Source
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel

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