Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
RAMANA MAHARSHIApart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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