Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
RAMANA MAHARSHIA 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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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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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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