Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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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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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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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The world is not outside you.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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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.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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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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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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