When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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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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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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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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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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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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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.
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