Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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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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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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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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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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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.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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