Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
RAMANA MAHARSHIForgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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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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As you are, so is the world.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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