You need not aspire for or get any new state. Get rid of your present thoughts, that is all.
RAMANA MAHARSHIBy whatever path you go, you will have to lose yourself in the one. Surrender is complete only when you reach the stage `Thou art all’ and `Thy will be done’.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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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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Dive deep into the chambers of your heart. Find out the real, infinite ‘I’. Rest there peacefully for ever and become identical with the Supreme Self.
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Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit.
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All that is required to realise the Self is to “Be Still.
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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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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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The normal self is the mind. The mind is with limitations. But pure Consciousness is beyond limitations, and is reached by investigation into the “I.”
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The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.
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The ultimate truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that needs to be said. Only mature minds can grasp the simple truth in all its nakedness.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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We are in our Self. We are not in the world.
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The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.
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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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Remove the Ego and Avidya (Ignorance) is gone. Look for it, the ego vanishes and the real Self alone remains.
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