We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
RAMANA MAHARSHIIf one’s mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality.
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God illumines the mind and shines within it. One cannot know God by means of the mind. One can but turn the mind inwards and merge it in God.
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Without seeing the origin of light, the true form of one’s Self, the ordinary man sees by the mind different things and is deluded.
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Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.
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If there is anything besides the Self there is reason to fear? Who sees the second? First, the ego arises and sees objects as external. If the ego does not rise, the Self alone exists and there is no second.
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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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Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows ‘I am!’ No one can deny his own being.
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The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.
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The question ‘Who am I?’ is not really meant to get an answer, the question ‘Who am I?’ is meant to dissolve the questioner.
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All that one gives to others one gives to one’s self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
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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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Your own Self-realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
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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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