Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHIForgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You are already That which you seek.
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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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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own 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 body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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