If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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