Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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 ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Let what comes come, let what goes go.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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