The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHINearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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As you are, so is the world.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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The source of the ego is God.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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