Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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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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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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The source of the ego is God.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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