When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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