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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIUnless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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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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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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The world is not outside you.
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