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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

Ramana Maharshi

God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Oneself Remain Shine
That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Change Existence Forever Reality
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Himself Image Mental See
The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Myself Source Thinking
One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Open Realize Store
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Himself Suffering Thinking
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
Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Grace Necessary Oneself Operation Yourself
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Loss Reality Shine Simplicity
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Concept Deep Existence Follow God Himself Philosophy Problem Solution Thinking Wisdom
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking

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