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?
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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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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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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