The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhat comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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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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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Silence is also conversation.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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