One must realise his Self in order to open the store of unalloyed happiness.
RAMANA MAHARSHIOur identification with the mind and body is the chief reason for our failure to know our self as we truly are.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Happiness is relative and is better called pleasure or satisfaction.
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The pure mind is itself Brahman; it therefore follows that Brahman is not other than the mind of the sage.
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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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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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Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
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It is within your competence to think and thus to get bound or to cease thinking and thus be free.
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Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.
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The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend.
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There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.
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Concentration of the mind is in a way common to both Knowledge and Yoga. Yoga aims at union of the individual with the universal, the Reality. This Reality cannot be new. It must exist even now, and it does exist.
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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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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.
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