What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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