Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
RAMANA MAHARSHI
RAMANA MAHARSHI
Ramana Maharshi on consciousness
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.”
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi True silence is really endless speech.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi We dig a well and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or well has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth which was filling the space there. The space was there then and is also there now.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary.
Antonin ArtaudAntonin Artaud Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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