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.
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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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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Have faith in God and in yourself; that will cure all. Hope for the best, expect the best, toil for the best and everything will come right for you in the end.
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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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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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Discover your undying Self and be immortal and happy.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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When your real, effortless, joyful grateful nature is realized, it will not be inconsistent with the ordinary activities of life.
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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