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 MAHARSHINon-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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is 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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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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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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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