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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

Ramana Maharshi

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Reality World Yourself
You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Finding Peace Possible Wind Worry Yourself
Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Powerful Silence Talk Worth
Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Happiness Oneself Search Solitude
Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Imagination Misery Reality
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Ocean Vessel Yourself
Let what comes come, let what goes go.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Acceptance Let Go
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Natural Oneself Original Simplicity State Truth
The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Captive Desire Fact Fake Freedom Liberty Nature Necessary Prison Reality
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Death Deep Forget Nature Reality Remember Spiritual Yourself
Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Existence Presence Yourself
The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Heart Science Summary
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Heart Perspective Universe
Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Body Chief Failure Identify Mindset Ourselves Reason
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.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Carry Grace Himself Ocean Vessel
Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
RAMANA MAHARSHI

Creator God Knowledge Known Valid

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