The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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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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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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