Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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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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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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