It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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The source of the ego is God.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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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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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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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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