If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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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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Silence is also conversation.
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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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