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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

It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Freedom Thinking Yourself
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Experience Grief Mindset State Thinking Yourself
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Arrest Manifestation Thief Yourself
Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aspect Happiness Mindset Nature Pain Pleasure
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Ego Heart Myself Thinking
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Body Existence See World
The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Dive Ego Existence Myself Rise Source Transcendence
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
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.
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God Himself Image Mental See
Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Community Family Himself Prosperity
Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Feeling Finding Search Stay Thinking
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek

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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