We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
RAMANA MAHARSHII Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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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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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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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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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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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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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Silence is also conversation.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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