Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAs you are, so is the world.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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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 Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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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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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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The source of the ego is God.
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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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