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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.

Ramana Maharshi

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Myself Responsibility Summary Truth
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Aura Complete Himself Influence People Realize Silence Spiritual
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?”
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Follow Rise Thinking
There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Fact Greatness Mystery Reality Seek
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Future Past Present Science Time
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Experience Perfection Reality Silence
The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Enjoyment Investigate Mindset Thinking
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Existence Realize State
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Peace Silence Truth
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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Book Meditation Reading Realize Yourself
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Action Himself Suffering Thinking
Guru, God and Self are One.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God One Liner Oneself Teacher

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