If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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