Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHITransforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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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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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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The world is not outside you.
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Grace is always present. You imagine it as something high in the sky, far away, something that has to descend. It is really inside you, in your heart. When the mind rests in its source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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