We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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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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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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No one succeeds without effort. Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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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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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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