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 MAHARSHICalmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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As you are, so is the world.
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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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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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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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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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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