See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Concentration 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.
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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.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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