You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe world is not outside you.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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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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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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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.
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