Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFood affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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