Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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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.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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True silence is really endless speech.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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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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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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The explorers seek happiness in finding curiosities, discovering new lands and undergoing risks in adventures. They are thrilling. But where is pleasure found? Only within. Pleasure is not to be sought in the external world.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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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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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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