For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIn 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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 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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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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