The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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