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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

Ramana Maharshi

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Light Seek Work Yourself
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Aware Direct Knowledge Oneself
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.
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Action Desire Love Mindset Peace Purity Right
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Greatness Realize Service Yourself
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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Ego Freedom Ignorance Sadness Trouble Yourself
Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Correct Inspirational Light Simplicity Sun Transformation World Yourself
All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Karma Oneself Truth Understand
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Active Impression Meditation Mindset Pursuit Thinking
The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Direction Expression Heart Knowledge Learning Meaning Mindset
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.
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Active Control Mindset Realize Shine Yourself
Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Best End Expectation Faith God Right Yourself
Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Manifestation Meditation Mindset Subtle Truth
There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Effort Forever Herself Identity Natural Simplicity State Wrong
The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Atom Finding Mindset Structure

You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.

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