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 MAHARSHIHappiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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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.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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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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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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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 the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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