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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDiscover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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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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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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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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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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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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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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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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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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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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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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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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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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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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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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