You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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 activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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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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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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