Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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