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.
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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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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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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It is said that the I-activity is the root of all activities. From where the I-thought emerges, that in short is the heart.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
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Beyond the belief that something can be lost, there is nothing to lose.
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Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
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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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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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