Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Silence is also conversation.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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