Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.”
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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 MaharshiRamana Maharshi When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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