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As instruments for knowing the objects, the sense organs are outside, and so they are called outer s...

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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage ca...

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No one succeeds without effort. ... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi...

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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...

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The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of ...

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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it ...

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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If yo...

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It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio...

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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.

Whatever draws the mind outward is unspiritual and whatever draws the mind inward is spiritual

No one succeeds without effort.... Those who succeed owe their success to their perseverance.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are...

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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the st...

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The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all th...

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Time and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, t...

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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

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The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the pict...

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Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.

Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.

you must achieve liberation during your life time.Even if you fail to do it during your lifetime, yo...

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Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food res...

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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for ...

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There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, i...

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There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.

Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the i...

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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the st...

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The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi

Born: 1879-12-30

Died: 1950-04-14

Ramana Maharshi (30 December 1879 – 14 April 1950) was a Hindu sage, and a proponent of Advaita Vedanta. He advocated self-enquiry (Atma-Vichara) as a means to Self-realization.More