An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGuru, God and Self are One.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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The world is not outside you.
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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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The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
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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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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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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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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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The source of the ego is God.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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