Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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