Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOne must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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The source of the ego is God.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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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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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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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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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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