God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
RAMANA MAHARSHIAim 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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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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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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