Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes you sink. Look up, beyond these and see the One Glorious Real, and you are saved.
RAMANA MAHARSHII Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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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That which is not present in deep dreamless sleep is not real.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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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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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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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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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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The source of the ego is God.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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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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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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The world is not outside you.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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