Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOnce the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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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 seeing. Seeing is only being.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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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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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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