The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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Instead of indulging in mere speculation, devote yourself here and now to the search for the Truth that is ever within you.
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Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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It is said that the heart is in the microcosm just as the orb of the sun in the macrocosm. The mind in Sahasrara is like the disc of the moon.
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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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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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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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You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
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Your true nature is that of infinite spirit. The feeling of limitation is the work of the mind.
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Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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