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

Ramana Maharshi

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

Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Affect Food Harmony Mindset Necessary Practice Purity
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Presence Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Carry Day Flow Life Meditation Need Responsibility Work Yourself
If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Thinking Way Yourself
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Goodness Realize State Thinking
Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Grace Necessary Present Surrender Yourself
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Oneself Search Solitude
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Care Future Live Present Yourself
Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Focus Goal Knowledge Mindset Philosophy Reality Universe
Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Kind Knowledge Man Reality
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Experience Perfection Reality Silence

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