There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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