Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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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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The world is not outside you.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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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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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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