You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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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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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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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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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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The world is not outside you.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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The grace of the Guru is like an ocean. If one comes with a cup he will only get a cupful. It is no use complaining of the niggardliness of the ocean. The bigger the vessel the more one will be able to carry. It is entirely up to him.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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