He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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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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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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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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See 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.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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