Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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