There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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As you are, so is the world.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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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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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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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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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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