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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

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Finding Yourself
The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Known Seek Wisdom Yourself
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Faculty Realize Removal Skeleton
Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Fake Idea Oneself Realize
Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Ego Ignorance Remain Remove
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Oneself Realize Transcendence
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace Yourself
When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Conserve Energy Mindset Thinking
As you are, so is the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

One Liner Perspective World Yourself
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Knowledge Known Wisdom Yourself
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
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
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Oneself Remain Shine
True silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Silence Talk True
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

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality

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.

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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.

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