The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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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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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.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Silence is also conversation.
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