It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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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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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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