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See who is the subject and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
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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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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in the true Self. Man’s search for happiness is an unconscious search for his true Self. The true Self is imperishable therefore, when a man finds it, he finds a happiness which does not come to an end.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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You are already That which you seek.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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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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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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