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> [It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? The real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new or achieving something which we did not have before. The illustration given in books is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/it-is-false-to-speak-of-realization-what-is-there-to-realize-the-real/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/we-loosely-talk-of-self-realization-for-lack-of-a-better-term-but-how/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

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## More by Ramana Maharshi

> [Then all this earth shines like one house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/then-all-this-earth-shines-like-one-house/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/silence-is-most-powerful-speech-is-always-less-powerful-than-silence/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/meditation-is-sticking-to-one-thought-that-single-thought-keeps-away/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-more-you-prune-a-plant-the-more-it-grows-so-too-the-more-you-seek/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/think-of-god-attachments-will-gradually-drop-away-if-you-wait-till/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/that-which-rises-and-sinks-is-made-up-of-what-it-rises-from-the/)

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> [Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/food-affects-the-mind-for-the-practice-of-any-kind-of-yoga/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-mind-of-one-meditating-on-a-single-object-becomes-one-pointed-and/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Eating, bathing, going to the toilet, talking, thinking, and many other activities related to the body are all work. How is it that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/eating-bathing-going-to-the-toilet-talking-thinking-and-many-other/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Knowing the Self, God is known.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/knowing-the-self-god-is-known/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [Every moment there is creation, every moment destruction. There is no absolute creation, no absolute destruction. Both are movement, and that is eternal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/every-moment-there-is-creation-every-moment-destruction-there-is-no/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-entire-universe-is-condensed-in-the-body-and-the-entire-body-in/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/the-state-of-self-realization-as-we-call-it-is-not-attaining/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/god-illumines-the-mind-and-shines-within-it-one-cannot-know-god-by/)

[Ramana Maharshi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ramana-maharshi/)

> [We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ramana-maharshi/we-are-so-engrossed-with-the-objects-or-appearances-revealed-by-the/)

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