Ramana Maharshi
Ramana Maharshi233 quotes“Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.”
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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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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?
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi 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.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Knowing the Self, God is known.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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