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.
RAMANA MAHARSHINearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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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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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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