Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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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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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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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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