Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFood affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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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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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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Silence is also conversation.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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