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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Ramana Maharshi

You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Discover Investigation Leadership Problem Question Solve Yourself
The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Call Goal Reach Realize Simplicity State Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Destroy Ego Growth Plant Seek Yourself
Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Current Intense Oneself
By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Attention Ego Sea Source
That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Consciousness Ego Existence Lying Oneself Rise
What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Heart Message Need Talk
Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Follow Rise Thinking
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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Known Seek Wisdom Yourself
Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Concept Deep Existence Follow God Himself Philosophy Problem Solution Thinking Wisdom
When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Activity Consistent Effort Gratitude Joy Life Nature Reality Realize
There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Active Control Mindset Realize Shine Yourself
Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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God Oneself Realize Suffering Way
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Dreams Present Reality Sleep
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Equality Guess Knowledge
He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Oneself Realize Transcendence

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