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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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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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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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