Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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