There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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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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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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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.
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As you are, so is the world.
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