The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
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The world is not outside you.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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 normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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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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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?
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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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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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