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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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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.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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