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.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is also conversation.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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