The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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You are the Supreme Being, and yet thinking yourself to be separate from it, you strive to become united with it. What is stranger than this?
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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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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.
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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 inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
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The fact is that you are not the body. The Self does not move but the world moves in it. You are only what you are.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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