Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhatever 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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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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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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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 solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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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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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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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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