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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Ramana Maharshi

He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Himself Suffering Thinking
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
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Care Future Live Present Yourself
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Hands Ignorance Lose Man
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
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Suffering Yourself
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Myself Name Philosophy
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
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle
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
I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindfulness Myself Notice See Yourself
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
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

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