Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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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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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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You are already That which you seek.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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