Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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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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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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