Ramana Maharshi on grace
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.”
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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 MaharshiRamana Maharshi Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi
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Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp By the grace of God I want to impart the Word, and bring you into a place where you will dare to act upon the plan of the Word, to so breathe life by the power of the Word that it is impossible for you to go on under any circumstances without his provision.
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