The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEngage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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A 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.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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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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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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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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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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