The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHISee 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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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 question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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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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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.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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