Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHISense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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