The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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You are already That which you seek.
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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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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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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 harmonious.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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The world is not outside you.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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