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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.

Ramana Maharshi

The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Finding Yourself
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Creation Illusion Mindset Thinking
Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Heart Love Oneself Religion
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
Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Consciousness Limitation Mindset Perfection 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
Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Communication Deep End Language Medium Silence Speech Talk
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Equality Guess Knowledge
Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Oneself Reason Surrender
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Help Meditation Thinking Yourself
Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grace Heart Yourself
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Himself Suffering Thinking
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Karma Oneself Truth Understand
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Enlightenment Greatness Obstacle

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