You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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