The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
RAMANA MAHARSHIUnless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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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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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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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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