The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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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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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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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What message is needed when heart speaks to heart?
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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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There is a state when words cease and silence prevails.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.
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Silence is never-ending speech. In silence one is in intimate contact with the surroundings. Language is only a medium for communicating one’s thoughts to another. Silence is ever speaking.
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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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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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I see only what you see, but I notice what I see.
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