Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOf all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
RAMANA MAHARSHILiberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAll 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThen all this earth shines like one house.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIPeace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHIForgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
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