When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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