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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

Ramana Maharshi

The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creation Ego Existence Perception Try World Yourself
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Distraction Meditation Oneself Weakness
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Division Mindset Object Perception Sight
If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Energy Person Realize Separate Thinking Trouble Willing World Yourself
Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Light Self Love Transformation World Yourself
By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Art Path Reach Stage Surrender Yourself
Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Equality Guess Knowledge
The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Clear Existence Known Oneself Yourself
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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Body Heart Perspective Universe
When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Distraction Meditation Thinking
The source of the ego is God.
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Ego God One Liner Source
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

End Hands Illusion Oneself Remain Search
Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Form Knowledge Name Oneself See Truth Worship
That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Dreams Present Reality Sleep
Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Affect Food Harmony Mindset Necessary Practice Purity

Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.

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