Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
RAMANA MAHARSHIInstead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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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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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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