Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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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.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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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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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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