We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
RAMANA MAHARSHIYou need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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True silence is really endless speech.
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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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The Self is the heart, self-luminous. Illumination arises from the heart and reaches the brain, which is the seat of the mind. The world is seen with the mind; so you see the world by the reflected light of the Self.
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To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Mind is a wonderful force inherent in the Self.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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