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Happiness Quotes by Ramana Maharshi

15 Happiness quotes by Ramana Maharshi

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Ramana Maharshi’s teachings focus on inner peace, and these fifteen quotes distill his profound view of happiness as a state of being. The reflections are concise yet deep, offering a contemplative pause for anyone seeking a more tranquil sense of joy.

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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

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

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Such happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.

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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True "I" enjoys…

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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge…

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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…

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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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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is…

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Happiness is your real nature. You identify with yourself with the body and mind, feel it's limitations, and suffer. Realize your true…

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Know that the eradication of the identification with the body is charity, spiritual austerity and ritual sacrifice; it is virtue, divine union…

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Every living being longs always to be happy, untainted by sorrow; and everyone has the greatest love for himself, which is solely…

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The experience of not forgetting consciousness alone is the state of devotion which is the relationship of unfading real love, because the…

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The world is so unhappy because it is ignorant of the true Self. Man’s real nature is happiness. Happiness is inborn in…

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Knowing the Self, God is known.

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Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.

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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…

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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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