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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWithout knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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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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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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The source of the ego is God.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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