Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.
RAMANA MAHARSHIWhen one makes the mind stick to one thought, the mind becomes rock-steady and the energy is conserved.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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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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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 unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
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Because truth is exceedingly subtle and serene, the bliss of the Self can manifest only in a mind rendered subtle and steady by assiduous meditation.
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The seat of Realization is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart.
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There is nothing wrong with God’s creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
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If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself.
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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In truth, you are spirit. The body has been projected by the mind, which itself originates from Spirit.
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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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If you make the thief the policeman there will be lots of investigation but no arrests will ever be made.
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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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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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Let knowledge be guessed by the sign of equality to all beings.
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Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.
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