Actions themselves form no bondage. Bondage is only the false belief, “I am the do-er.”
RAMANA MAHARSHIHe that sees the Lord in the temple, the living body, by seeking Him within, can alone see Him, the Infinite, in the temple of the universe, having become the Endless Eye.
More Ramana Maharshi Quotes
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Silence is most powerful. Speech is always less powerful than silence.
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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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A higher power is leading you; be led by the same. It knows what to do and how to do it.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind.
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When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.
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We are so engrossed with the objects, or appearances revealed by the light, that we pay no attention to the light.
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Realisation is our nature. It is nothing new to be gained. What is new cannot be eternal. Therefore there is no need for doubting if one would lose or gain the Self.
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He who thinks he is the doer is also the sufferer.
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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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Guru, God and Self are One.
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Having set one’s family in consonance with the community, he should make his family prosperous to ensure the prosperity of the community.
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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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Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.
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Seeing God without seeing the Self, one sees only mental image. Only he who has seen Himself has seen God, since he has lost individuality, and now sees nothing but God.
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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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