Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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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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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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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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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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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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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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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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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 place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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