All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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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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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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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 fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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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 degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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