The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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