Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHaving set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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