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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”

Ramana Maharshi

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
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Existence Fear Object Reason
The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Enemy Friendship Hate Kill Seek
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
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.
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God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Existence Presence Yourself
The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Help Meditation Thinking Yourself
Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Belief Fake Form Myself Prison
The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Grasp Mindset Naked Natural Simplicity State Truth
The source of the ego is God.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego God One Liner Source
There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Failure Silence State Word
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Body Death Spirit Touch Transcendence
If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Ego Rise Spirituality Wisdom
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Love One Liner Wisdom

The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”

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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”

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