In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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As you are, so is the world.
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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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