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.
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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Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage.
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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If the ego rises, all else will also rise; if it subsides, all else will also subside.
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What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.
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The world is not outside you.
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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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That alone is Real which exists by itself, which reveals itself by itself and which is eternal and unchanging.
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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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You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Self-reform automatically brings about social reform.
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The mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The thoughts have their root in the I-thought. Whoever investigates the True “I” enjoys the stillness of bliss.
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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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