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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThat is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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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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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Why 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.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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The world is not outside you.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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You are already That which you seek.
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