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.
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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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