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 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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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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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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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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