Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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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.
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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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 Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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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.
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There 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.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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All 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.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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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.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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