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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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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.
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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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