Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.”
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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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Love is verily the heart of all religions.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Guru, God and Self are One.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The world is not outside you.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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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