The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
RAMANA MAHARSHII Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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Mind is but a poor reflection of the radiant Heart.
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If you observe awareness steadily, this awareness itself becomes the Guru that will reveal the Truth.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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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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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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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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In the Heart’s cavity, the sole Brahman as an ever-persisting ‘I’ shines direct in the form of the Self. Into the Heart enter thyself, with mind in search or in deeper plunge. Or by restraint of life-movement be firmly poised in the Self.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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