When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
RAMANA MAHARSHISurrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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