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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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 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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality. We think that there is something hiding reality and that this must be destroyed before reality is gained. How ridiculous! A day will dawn when you will laugh ... at all your past efforts. That which will be the day you laugh is also here and now.
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