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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

Ramana Maharshi

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

Book Finding Yourself
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Imagination Misery Reality
Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindset Myself Rise Thinking
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
The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Death Spirit Touch Transcendence
There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Greatness Meditation Obstacle
In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Mindset Spirit Spirituality Truth
The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Adventure Explorer Happiness Pleasure Risk Seek Thrilling World
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Freedom Ignorance Sadness Trouble Yourself
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Oneself Realize Transcendence
Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direction Ourselves Realize Reveal Thinking
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
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself
Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Born Burn Freedom Karma Truth Yourself
The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Illusion Reality Universe World

If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.

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