As you are, so is the 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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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Silence is also conversation.
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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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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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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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