What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
RAMANA MAHARSHISee who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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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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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 place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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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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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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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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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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