Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGuru, God and Self are One.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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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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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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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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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHI