Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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You are already That which you seek.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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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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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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