To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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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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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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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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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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