If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
RAMANA MAHARSHIGrace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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The self cannot be found in books. You have to find it for yourself, within yourself.
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All activities and events that a body is to go through are determined at the time of conception.
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This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.
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Realization is to get rid of the delusion that you have not realized.
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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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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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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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Of all the thoughts that rise in the mind, the thought ‘I’ is the first thought.
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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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The entire Universe is condensed in the body, and the entire body in the Heart. Thus the Heart is the nucleus of the whole Universe.
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Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
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That is the ego which rises and sinks periodically. But you exist always. That which lies beyond the ego is consciousness – the Self.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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