The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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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.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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As you are, so is the world.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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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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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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