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A highly respected Indian sage known for his teachings on self-enquiry and the nature of the self. His method of self-inquiry, particularly the question "Who am I?", encourages individuals to look beyond the ego and discover their true essence. His teachings emphasize the importance of inner silence and the realization of the self as the ultimate reality, guiding seekers towards profound self-awareness and spiritual liberation.

Ramana Maharshi Icon Image
Ramana Maharshi
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A highly respected Indian sage known for his teachings on self-enquiry and the nature of the self. His method of self-inquiry, particularly the question "Who am I?", encourages individuals to look beyond the ego and discover their true essence. His teachings emphasize the importance of inner silence and the realization of the self as the ultimate reality, guiding seekers towards profound self-awareness and spiritual liberation.

If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself

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The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner.

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You are already That which you seek.

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Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely due to the fact that happiness is his real nature. Hence, in order to realize that inherent and untainted happiness, which indeed he daily experiences when the mind is subdued in deep sleep, it is essential that he should know himself. For obtaining such knowledge the inquiry 'Who am I?' in quest of the Self is the best means.

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.

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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you 'Realize the Self'. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.

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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.

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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys the stillness of bliss.

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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.

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We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one.

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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.

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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.

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We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.

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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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The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.

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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happen happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.

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The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body; one should understand that true death is the extinction of the ideas "I" and "mine."

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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.

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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

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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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