All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIn truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The source of the ego is God.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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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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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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