The world is not outside you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoes one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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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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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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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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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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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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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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?
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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