The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
RAMANA MAHARSHISee what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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You are already That which you seek.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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As you are, so is the world.
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