Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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