Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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Why 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.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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You are already That which you seek.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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 a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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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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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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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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