Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAim 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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