Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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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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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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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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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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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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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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