Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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