Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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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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