The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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 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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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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Then all this earth shines like one house.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
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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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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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Guru, God and Self are One.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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The macrocosm is in its entirety in the body. The body is in its entirety in the heart. Therefore heart is the summarised form of all the macrocosm.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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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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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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