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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness
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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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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