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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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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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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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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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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.
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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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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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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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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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