It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGod illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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