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’.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYour own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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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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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The world is not outside you.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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