The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
RAMANA MAHARSHINobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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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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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Silence is also conversation.
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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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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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