One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBy constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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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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True silence is really endless speech.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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