The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You are already That which you seek.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Silence is also conversation.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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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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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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.
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