Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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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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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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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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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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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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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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