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 MAHARSHIYou know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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The world is not outside you.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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