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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOne must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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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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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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 greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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