Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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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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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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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Aim 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.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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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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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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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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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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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