Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Silence is also conversation.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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