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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.

Ramana Maharshi

Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Deep Dissolve Philosophy Question Wisdom
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Dreams Present Reality Sleep
He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Himself Suffering Thinking
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Belief Leadership Power Trust Yourself
You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Knowledge Known Wisdom Yourself
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Awake Fall Mindset Quiet Reach Reality Sleep Start Wander Yourself
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
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.
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Adventure Explorer Happiness Pleasure Risk Seek Thrilling World
To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Kill Mindset Pretend Rise Thief Yourself
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Faculty Realize Removal Skeleton
True silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Silence Talk True
It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Freedom Thinking Yourself
There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creation Existence God Mindset Mystery Suffering Wrong
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Finding Peace Possible Wind Worry Yourself

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