The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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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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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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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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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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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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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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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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