Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHII see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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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?”
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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