That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWithout knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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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.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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