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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.

Ramana Maharshi Icon Image
Ramana Maharshi
Quotes

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.

The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.

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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.

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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.

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Silence is also conversation.

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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.

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If one wants to abide in the thought-free state, a struggle is inevitable. One must fight one's way through before regaining one's original primal state. If one succeeds in the fight and reaches the goal, the enemy, namely the thoughts, will all subside in the Self and disappear entirely.

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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?

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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.

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It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it.

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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

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God's grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of everyone as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.”

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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.

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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.

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The world is not outside you.

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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.

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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away - the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.

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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the "I."

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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.

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You impose limits on your true nature of infinite being. Then you get displeased to be only a limited creature. Then you begin spiritual practices to transcend these non-existing limits. But if your practice itself implies the existence of these limits, how could they allow you to transcend them.

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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

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All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

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