Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMisery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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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 Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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