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.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Our identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
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By constantly keep one’s attention on the Source, the ego is dissolved in that Source like a salt-doll in the sea.
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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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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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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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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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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength.
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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Wanting to reform the world without discovering one’s true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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