The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWe are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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The 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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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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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