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.
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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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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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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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