See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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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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