Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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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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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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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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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 Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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