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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
Philosopher
Writer
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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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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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this 'I' arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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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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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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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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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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The Self itself is the world the Self itself is 'I' the Self itself is God all is Siva, the Self.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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The source of the ego is God.
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