You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
RAMANA MAHARSHILove is verily the heart of all religions.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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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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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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The 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.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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