Mind is consciousness which has put on limitations. You are originally unlimited and perfect. Later you take on limitations and become the mind.
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe whose pure mind turns inward and searches whence does this ‘I’ arise, knows the Self and merges in You, the Lord, as a river into the sea.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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All that exists is but the manifestation of the Supreme Being.
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The experience of silence alone is the real and perfect knowledge.
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Truth burns up all karma and frees you from all births.
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Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
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He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.
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The very fact that we wish for liberation shows that freedom from all bondage is our real nature. It is not to be freshly acquired. All that is necessary is to get rid of the false notion that we are bound.
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God’s grace consists in the fact that He shines in the heart of every one as the Self; that power of grace does not exclude any one, whether good or otherwise.
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Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.
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Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.
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Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.
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An unawakened person sees only his mind, which is merely a reflection of the light of pure consciousness arising from the Heart.
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As you are, so is the world.
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There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.
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