Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
RAMANA MAHARSHISeeing 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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