If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHaving set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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As you are, so is the world.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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 and merge it in God.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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