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

Ramana Maharshi

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

Existence Imagination Misery Reality
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Problem Search See Solution
You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Suffering Yourself
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
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
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Finding Yourself
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
I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Myself Name Philosophy
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Idea Reality Thinking Time Yourself
Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Action Desire Love Mindset Peace Purity Right
Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Peace Silence Truth
If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Fear Object Reason
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Heart Myself Thinking
Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Existence See World
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Equality Guess Knowledge
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Presence Yourself

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