Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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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.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Silence is also conversation.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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