The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealisation 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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 has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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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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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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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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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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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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