The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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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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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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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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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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You are already That which you seek.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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