Ramana Maharshi on form
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“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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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi You are already That which you seek.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi As you are, so is the world.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The best form in which to worship God is every form.
Neem Karoli BabaNeem Karoli Baba Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
Meher BabaMeher Baba God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.
Guru NanakGuru Nanak The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Georges CuvierGeorges Cuvier I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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