Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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You are already That which you seek.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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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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