It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIEven 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.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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He that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
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Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?
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Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Liberation exists- and you will never be liberated.
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One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
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Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.
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There must be a subject to know the good and evil. That subject is the ego.
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