Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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As you are, so is the world.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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