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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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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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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 main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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