God 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.
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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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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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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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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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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