Ramana Maharshi on consciousness
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.”
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Guru, God and Self are One.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The world is not outside you.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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