Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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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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