If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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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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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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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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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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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.
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