If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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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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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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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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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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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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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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