There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGood thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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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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By whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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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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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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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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