I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIForgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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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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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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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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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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The world is not outside you.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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