See who is the doubter, who is the thinker. It is the ego. Hold it; the other thoughts will die away – the ego will be left pure. See the source from where the ego arises and abide in it. That is pure consciousness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIThe solution to your problem is to see who has it.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?”
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Peace can reign only where there is no disturbance, and disturbance is due to thoughts that arise in the mind.
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is ‘I’; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.
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The source of the ego is God.
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Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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To ask the mind to kill itself is like making the thief the policeman. He will go with you and pretend to catch the thief, but nothing will be gained. So you must turn inward and see where the mind rises from, and then it will cease to exist.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Nearly all mankind is more or less unhappy because nearly all do not know the true Self. Real happiness abides in Self-knowledge alone. All else is fleeting. To know one’s Self is to be blissful always.
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
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