Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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Without knowing the Knower, all the knowledge that one gathers cannot be valid.
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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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You are already That which you seek.
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The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
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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 source of the ego is God.
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We are always peace. To get rid of the idea that we are not peace is all that is required.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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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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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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Grace is within you. If it were external, it would be useless.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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