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.
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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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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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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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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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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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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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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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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