Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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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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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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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You are already That which you seek.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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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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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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