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.
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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There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.
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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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The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.
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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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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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The Self alone exists. When you try to trace the ego, which is the basis of the perception of the world and everything else, you find the ego does not exist at all and neither does all this creation that you see.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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