The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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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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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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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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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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