Guru, God and Self are One.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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.
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Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.
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The man who has the sense of the body being himself cannot possibly worship God as formless; whatever worship he makes will be worship in form alone, not otherwise.
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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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Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
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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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All are seeing God always. But they do not know it.
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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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Even in intake, the one steadfast thought is said to be the natural state. Nirvikalpa Samadhi will result when the sensory objects are not present.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.
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The “I” thought is said to be the sum total of all thoughts. The source of the “I” thought has to be inquired into.
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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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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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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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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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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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The world is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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