Knowing the Self, God is known.
RAMANA MAHARSHISense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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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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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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