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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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