Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
RAMANA MAHARSHISee who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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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.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Silence is also conversation.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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?”
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