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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi
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