All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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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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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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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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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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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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You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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