You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
RAMANA MAHARSHIInstead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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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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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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As you are, so is the world.
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