The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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 self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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