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.
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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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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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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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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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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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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