In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFor those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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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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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.
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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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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