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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAn unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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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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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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You 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.
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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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