No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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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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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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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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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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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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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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