When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHappiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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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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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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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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