Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
RAMANA MAHARSHIDoubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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The place where even the slightest trace of the ‘I’ does not exist, alone is Self.
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The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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Guru, God and Self are One.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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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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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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