Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMisery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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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 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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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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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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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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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