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If 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.

Ramana Maharshi

The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Illusion Reality Universe World
The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Illuminate Light Mindset Oneself Reach Reflection Yourself
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel
Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Discover Goal Natural Process Realize
Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Idea Reality Thinking Time Yourself
See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Death Doubt Ego Hold Source Thinking
It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ego Heart Myself Thinking
Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Goodness Realize State Thinking
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Degree Focus Freedom Measurement Progress Spiritual
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Known See
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Care Future Present Trouble Yourself
The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Book Finding Yourself
The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Bliss Existence Heart Realize Seek
If 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Aware Consciousness Ego Enough Fake Feeling Hold Yourself

If 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.

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If 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.

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