Knowing the Self, God is known.
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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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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.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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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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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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