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 MAHARSHISelf-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 MAHARSHIIf you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAn unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHITake no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConcentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou 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?
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBeyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWe dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy 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 MAHARSHISee 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.
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