The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
RAMANA MAHARSHILiberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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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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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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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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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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