All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOnce the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is also conversation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWe 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOf all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHISense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGood thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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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