There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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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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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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