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’.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGod’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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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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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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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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.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Your 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.
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You are already That which you seek.
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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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