Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.
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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Take no notice of the ego and its activities, but see only the light behind.
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The Self is the one Reality that always exists, and it is by the light of the Self that all other things are seen.
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Apart from the body does the world exist? Has anyone seen the world without the body?
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Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.
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Whatever be the means adopted, you must at last return to the Self, so why not abide as the Self here and now?
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Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
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Realization consists of getting rid of the false idea that one is not realized.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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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.
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You have to ask yourself the question ‘Who am I?’ This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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Thoughts come and go. Feelings come and go. Find out what it is that remains.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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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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