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The world is not outside you.

Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi
Age: 70 †
Born: 1879
Born: December 31
Died: 1950
Died: April 14
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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 experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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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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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one's Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
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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.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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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