Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIThoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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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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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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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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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 ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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