The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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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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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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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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The world is not outside you.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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