There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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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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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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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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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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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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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
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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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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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As you are, so is the world.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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