The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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I Am’ is the name of God, God is none other than the Self.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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Whatever is done lovingly, with righteous purity and with peace of mind, is a good action. Everything which is done with the stain of desire and with agitation filling the mind is classified as a bad action.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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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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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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Doubts arise because of an absence of surrender.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
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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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The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
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Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.
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As you are, so is the world.
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