Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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