Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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True silence is really endless speech.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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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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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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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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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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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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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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