You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself in yourself.
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The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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 thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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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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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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