Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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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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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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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