When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
RAMANA MAHARSHIMeditation applies the brakes to the mind.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no seeing. Seeing is only being.
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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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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
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The more you prune a plant, the more it grows. So too the more you seek to annihilate the ego, the more it will increase. You should seek the root of the ego and destroy it.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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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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Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
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There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.
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The 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.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Pure Consciousness, which is the Heart, includes all, and nothing is outside or apart from it. That is the ultimate Truth.
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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.
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