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?
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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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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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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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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 nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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