Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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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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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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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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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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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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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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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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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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