When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Knowing the Self, God is known.
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If one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Suffering is the way for Realization of God.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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