Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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The 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.
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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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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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