There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
RAMANA MAHARSHILet knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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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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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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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The end of all wisdom is love, love, love.
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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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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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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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If you approach the ocean with a cup, you can only take away a cupful; if you approach it with a bucket you can take away a bucketful.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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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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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Peace is the inner nature of humankind. If you find it within yourself, you will then find it everywhere.
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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 is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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