Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi was an Indian Hindu sage and jivanmukta. He was born Venkataraman Iyer, but is mostly known by the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi.
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- Tiruchuli Assembly constituency
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Trending topics shown first"17. The Jnanin present in the heart sees the mind merged in the light of the heart, like moonlight in the presence of the sun during the day."
"Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself."
"Remembrance also is similarly relative, requiring an object to be remembered and a subject to remember. When there is no duality, who is to remember whom? The Self is ever-present. Each one wants to k…"
"In the Heart's cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting 'I' shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-…"
"The Self That in which all these worlds seem to exist steadily, that of which all these worlds are a possession, that from which all these worlds rise, that for which all these exist, that by which al…"
"21. During that time, the embodied person does not know the attainment in the heart. It is known in the Samadhi. The difference in name is due to the difference in cause."
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1879
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Birth1950
Died
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