Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConsciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
RAMANA MAHARSHITake no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRemain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
RAMANA MAHARSHIFood affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConcentration 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHappiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
RAMANA MAHARSHITrue silence is really endless speech.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhy 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHITime is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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