Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHISilence is also conversation.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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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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Good thoughts keep off bad thoughts. They must themselves disappear before the state of realization.
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Non-action is unceasing activity. The sage is characterized by eternal and intense activity. His stillness is like the apparent stillness of a fast rotating gyroscope.
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Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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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 realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
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You are already That which you seek.
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Love is verily the heart of all religions.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.
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Realisation is nothing new to be acquired. It is already there, but obstructed by a screen of thoughts. All our attempts are directed to lifting this screen and then realisation is revealed.
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