The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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.
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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.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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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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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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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.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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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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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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