No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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 pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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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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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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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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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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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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