Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one’s own awareness is direct knowledge.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is ever happy. Neither grief nor misery is experienced in this state.
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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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Does one require proof of one’s own being? Only remain aware of yourself and all else will be known.
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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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The ego’s phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I’-thought rises.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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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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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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When one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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