Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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