The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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 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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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The 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.
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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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