When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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 body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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