To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHITo know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
RAMANA MAHARSHIConcentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
RAMANA MAHARSHITurn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHISelf-reform automatically brings about social reform.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIt is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHaving set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThere is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHappiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHISuffering is the way for Realization of God.
RAMANA MAHARSHIReality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThis 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.
RAMANA MAHARSHIRealization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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