Knowing the Self, God is known.
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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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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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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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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