The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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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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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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As you are, so is the world.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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