Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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The world is not outside you.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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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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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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