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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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