We 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 man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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The world is not outside you.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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