You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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 are already That which you seek.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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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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