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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

The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Himself Mindset Sage Thinking
The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Love One Liner Wisdom
See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Beyond Consciousness Leadership Purity Subject Yourself
The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Realize State
When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Consciousness God Manifestation Mindset
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
Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Different Light Mindset Ordinary Origin See Sight True
Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Activity Character Fast Forever Himself Sage
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
Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Consciousness Heart Purity Truth Ultimate
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Death Natural Present Result
The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Dive Ego Existence Myself Rise Source Transcendence
Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Faculty Realize Removal Skeleton
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
I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Mindfulness Myself Notice See Yourself
When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Focus Heart Learning Mindset Point Silence True

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