Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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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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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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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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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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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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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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As you are, so is the world.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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