Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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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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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 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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Silence is also conversation.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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