The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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The source of the ego is God.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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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.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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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.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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