When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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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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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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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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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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