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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

Ramana Maharshi

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Acceptance Adopt Attitude Divine Oneself Practice Strange
All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Centre Ego Negative Oneself Quality Realize
The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Himself Mindset Sage Thinking
It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Heart Mindset Moon Science Sun
The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Alone Body Form God Himself Man Possible Sense Worship
All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Known See
Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Finding Human Inner Kind Nature Peace Yourself
Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Feeling Infinite Limitation Mindset Nature Spirit True Work
He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

God Mindset Purity River Sea Search Yourself
Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Community Establishment Growth Mindset Peace Power
You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Separate Strange Strive Thinking Unity Yourself
Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Doubt Forever Nature Need Oneself Realize
In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Direct Heart Life Mindset Movement Search Shine Universe
Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Death Natural Present Result
If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Awake Fall Mindset Quiet Reach Reality Sleep Start Wander Yourself
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Calm Heart Progress Spirituality Work

God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.

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