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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

Ramana Maharshi

You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself
The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Action Carry Day Flow Life Meditation Need Responsibility Work Yourself
We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creation Earth Existence Remove Space Well
Guru, God and Self are One.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God One Liner Oneself Teacher
Knowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Known One Liner Oneself Spirituality
Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Reality World Yourself
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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Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Reform Social
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Book Finding Yourself
Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Oneself Remain Shine
The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Activity Affect Faint Heart Origin Place Possession Sleep
All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Activity Body Concept Determination Event Time
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Doubt Forever Nature Need Oneself Realize
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Fear Object Reason
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Himself Suffering Thinking
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Illuminate Mindset Oneself Shine

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