Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Meditation 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.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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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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