There is no mind to control if you realise the self. The mind having vanished, the self shines forth. In the realised man, the mind may be active or inactive, the self remains for him.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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You are already That which you seek.
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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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Once the current of awareness of the self is set afoot, it becomes everlasting and continuous by intensification.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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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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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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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 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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When the mind, one-pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the Heart, this is true learning.
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Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
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Call it by any name, God, Self, the Heart, or the Seat of Consciousness, it is all the same.
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He whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
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The self is known to every one but not clearly. You always exist.
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When one remains without thinking one understands another by means of the universal language of Silence.
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